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Title:Courtiers in a Rose Garden: Four Gentlemen and Four Ladies
Date:ca. 1440–1450
Culture:South Netherlandish
Medium:Wool warp, wool, silk, and metallic weft yarns
Dimensions:Overall: 149 x 104in. (378.5 x 264.2cm)
Classification:Textiles-Tapestries
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1909
Object Number:09.137.3
Sigismond Bardac, Paris (in 1904); [ Jacques Seligmann, Paris and New York (sold 1909)]
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