The Lady and the Unicorn
 
Date Description Source Reference
1509 to 1513 A.D. (?) Single blue (with dark blue designs) bell tent, small square banner on top of the apex, bulbous apex base, small gold flame decoration on roof and walls, golden valance decoration, including a description “TI * MON * SEVL * DESIR * R...” along with a golden fringe, two point guy rope attachment to either side of the tent (tied to a tree either side), golden interior. Figure 164, French episode from the Lady and the Unicorn, c. 1509 - 1513 (?), Musèe de Cluny, Paris.
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Figure 79. ‘A Mon Seul Desir’, one of the hangings from the set The Lady with Unicorn. Tapestry, France or the Southern Netherlands, late fifteenth century. Musée de Cluny, Paris.

Huyghe, R., Ed., Renaissance and Baroque Art, England, 1981, p. 84. 

Cavallo, A.S., Medieval Tapestries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1993, p72.


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