`Niobe and her children', A French Metamorphoses Mythological Tapestry, Aubusson, early 18th century

From the Story of Diana, depicting the death of  Niobe's children (Met.6:204-312), a subject representative of pride humbled, woven with the youths in a landscape setting, trying to avoid the arrows that are being sent down upon them from the heavens, and Niobe approaches the collapsing figures with her arm outstretched, without a border

See Catàlogo de Tapices del Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid, 1986, Vol. II, Series 43, pg. 13, The Story of Diana, for a weaving of the same subject, from a Paris workshop, circa 1618, from which the composition of the present tapestry, although simplified, is likely to have been inspired. 

 

Lacking Border. Later machine woven green edging. Linen backing. Velcro attached across the top for hanging purposes. Areas of repair and reweaving. In good restored condition. Balanced colour and composition. Versatile size of classical subject.
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