Boreas and Orithyia from a set of scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses; designed ca. 1690; woven before 1730; French; Beauvais; Wool; silk; metal thread (19-22 warps per inch; 7-9 per cm.); H. 140 x W. 179 inches (355.6 x 454.7 cm); as measured by Textile Conservation in 1984; Textiles-Tapestries; Maidens gathering flowers are plunged into disarray as; drapery billowing; winged Boreas; god of the North Wind; wraps Orithyia; a mortal princess of Athens; in his burly arms. Frustrated by her father's refusal to approve his marriage request; Boreas carries her off regardless; in a sharp diagonal thrust out of the picture plane; towards his home in Thrace