The Jason Tapestries
Artist: Jean François de Troy (1679 - 1752)
Location: Victoria and Albert Museum
Date: 1758 - 1761
Materials: tapestry
Grant:
Amount Paid: £1,500 (Total: £3,800)
Vendor: Baroness Burton
Review number: 1583 (1950)
Provenance:
Bought between 1800-1820 by William Murray, later Lord Mansfield of Kenwood; 1870 sold to Mr. M. G. Bass, father of Lord Burton; Baroness Burton.
Description:
Seven Gobelins tapestries, six from 1758-61, and the seventh from 1783. Commissioned from Jean Francois de Troy when Head of the French Academy in Rome, and designed 1743-46 at Rome.
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