UNKNOWN WEAVER, Flemish
(active around 1500 in Brussels)

The Unicorn in Captivity

1495-1505
Wood, silk, metallic threads, 368 x 252 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

This tapestry, showing the unicorn enclosed in a garden fence under a pomegranate tree, is the seventh in a series of seven representing the Hunt of the Unicorn. These tapestries may have been designed to celebrate a marriage.




© Web Gallery of Art, created by Emil Krén and Daniel Marx.