Coverlet for a bed (Lit à la duchesse en impériale)

Beauvais

Maker

Beauvais

Date

ca. 1780–90

Medium

Silk and wool (20-25 warps per inch, 8-11 per centimeter)

Dimensions

Overall:: 10 ft. 10 in. × 10 ft. 2 in. (330.2 × 309.9 cm) Central Tapestry Panel: 85 × 65 in. (215.9 × 165.1 cm)

Form

Bed

Culture

French, Beauvais

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Accession

23.235c

Credit line

Gift of Kingdon Gould, in memory of his mother, Edith Kingdon Gould, 1923