The Metropolitan Museum of Art · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Agamemnon musters the Greek troops at Aulis from the “Story of Iphigenia”
Pieter Coecke van Aelst|Willem de Kempeneer
- Date
- 1535–48
- Medium
- Wool, silk (16-17 warps per inch, 6-7 per cm.)
- Dimensions
- Overall: 164 1/2 x 259 in. (417.8 x 657.9 cm)
- Object type
- Tapestry
- Classification
- Textiles-Tapestries
- Culture
- Netherlandish, Brussels
- Object number
- 42.193.1
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Constance McCann Betts, Mrs. Winston F.C. Guest, and Frasier W. McCann, 1942
Artist information
Netherlandish, Aelst 1502–1550 Brussels|Flemish, active ca. 1522–48
Subjects and terms
- Soldiers
- Men
- Horses
The Met object ID 226955. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.