(3) Diana with nymphs resting in a wood.
(4) Diana begs from Jupiter eternal maidenhood.
(5) Niobe dissuades the people from sacrificing to Latona.
(6) Diana and Apollo slay the children of Niobe.
(7) Diana approves Meleager’s design of offering a boar’s head to Alithea.
There is another plate referring to the same subject which represents the birth of Diana.
Group 22. Tapestries of the Chamber of Charles III. (2 Tapestries)
On the completion of the new palace of Madrid in 1764, Charles III. ordered his bedroom to be decorated with tapestries to the number of seventy-seven pieces. These, of which the two plates reproduced here are a fair example, were specially woven at the royal factory at Madrid. They are all of rich materials and fine workmanship, and were used, as well for hangings as for the covering of chairs and couches. The tapestries were designed by Antoine Anglois. The two here reproduced are woven in silk and gold. They were used as a curtain to the balcony of the King’s bedroom and as a counterpane and bolster-cover for the royal bed.
It was owing to the interest taken by this monarch in the art of tapestry weaving that the factory at Madrid was placed under the supervision of that fine artist, Raphael Menos.
Group 23. The Spheres