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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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