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| Titles: | Tapestry showing Hecuba Sacrifices to Minerva From the Iliad of Homer |
| Date: | 1761-1769 |
| Artists: | Designed by Jean-Baptiste Deshays (French (active Paris), 1729–1765) Woven at the Beauvais tapestry manufactory, France (1664–present) Under the direction of André-Charlemagne Charron (French, director of the royal tapestry manufactory, Beauvais, from 1753 to 1780) |
| Medium: | Wool and silk |
| Dimensions: | 12 feet 8 inches x 9 feet 9 inches (386.1 x 297.2 cm) |
| Classification: | Textiles |
| Credit Line: | Gift of Mrs. Macculloch Miller in memory of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1942 |
| Accession Number: | 1942-36-3 |
| Geography: | Made in France, Europe |
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