Philadelphia Museum of Art - Collections Object : Tapestry showing Constantine's Triumphal Entry into Rome

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European Decorative Arts and Sculpture

Tapestry showing Constantine's Triumphal Entry into Rome
From the series known as "The History of Constantine the Great"

Made in Paris, France, Europe

1623-25

Figural composition designed in 1622 by Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish (active Italy, Antwerp, and England), 1577 - 1640. Woven at the Comans-La Planche tapestry factory, Paris. Workshop of Filippe Maëcht and Hans Taye, Flemish.

Wool and silk and gold and silver threads
15 feet 11 3/4 inches x 17 feet 10 5/16 inches (487 x 544.4 cm)

* Great Stair Hall Balcony, second floor

1959-78-1

Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1959

Label

This tapestry comes from the series known as "The History of Constantine the Great," seven of which were presented to Cardinal Francesco Barberini by Louis XIII of France in 1625.

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