Description
Dido loves Aeneas and offers a sacrifice to the gods, specifically Juno, the goddess of marriage, to keep him in Carthage. Priests prepare to cut open the newly slaughtered heifer and read the future in its entrails.
Provenance
Barberini Family, Rome, Italy (before 1695-1899); Charles M. Ffoulke (1849-1909), Washington, D.C. (1899-1915); Mitchell Samuels of French & Company (1880-1959), New York, NY, sold to Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss (1909-before 1915); Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss (1865-1944), Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art (before 1915-1915); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1915-)
Accession Number
1915.79.3
Medium
tapestry weave: silk and wool
Dimensions
Overall: 411 x 464.5 cm (161 13/16 x 182 7/8 in.)
Classification
Tapestry
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss, in memory of Dr. Dudley P. Allen
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