The Metropolitan Museum of Art · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Africa from a set of The Four Continents
Beauvais|Jean Jacques François Le Barbier|de Menou|Louis XVI, King of France
- Date
- designed ca. 1786, woven 1790–91
- Medium
- Wool, silk (19-21 warps per inch, 8 per cm.)
- Dimensions
- 12 × 15 ft. (365.8 × 457.2 cm)
- Object type
- Tapestry
- Classification
- Textiles-Tapestries
- Culture
- French, Beauvais
- Object number
- 1978.404.3
- Credit line
- Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Claus von Bülow Gift, 1978
Artist information
|French, Rouen 1738–1826 Paris|French, active 1780–93|French, Versailles 1754–1793 Paris
Subjects and terms
- Lions
- Crocodiles
- Zebras
- Birds
- Pyramids
- Elephants
- Snakes
The Met object ID 229585. 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.