France · c. 1688–1732 · tapestry
One tapestry.
Many hands.
A designer, a stylistic reference, a border designer and a weaving workshop meet in one object. The caption can unfold into the story.
Look / Try / Return to the object
Whose work are you looking at?
One tapestry, several credited roles. Select a role to unfold its catalogue wording.
The record
Read the maker line slowly
The catalogue does not give this tapestry one simple author. “After a design,” “in the style of,” a distinct border credit and the manufacture all describe different relationships. Each deserves room in the interface.
Artologium reading
The edge is work too
A border organizes the encounter between the scene and its surroundings. Selecting it here directs attention to an authored part of the object; it does not extract an independent original drawing.
Artologium reading
A workshop exceeds its surviving names
The named directors are alternatives in the record. The weavers are not individually identified there. A responsible account can make collective labor visible without supplying names that the source does not preserve.
The evidence stays with the story
What we know.
What remains open.
Supported relationship
Chicago distinguishes a design by Monnoyer in the style of Berain, Berain’s border design, and weaving at Beauvais under several possible workshop directors.
Read the institution record ↗artist_display, including alternative workshop directors.
The boundary
These are catalogue roles, not a complete list of the people who made the tapestry. The dates do not select one workshop director. Image regions are editorial attention guides, not separable design layers.
Surviving material: Textile (wool and silk) · Manufacturing technique: Slit and double-interlocking tapestry weave. Our observation controls and diagrams are labeled editorial studies. Source images are unmarked in the viewer.
The research behind this view
Follow the evidence.
AI-assisted institutional source review and original close reading; independent specialist review pending.
Research version pattern-elephant.1 · checked 2026-10-24 · independent specialist review pending.
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The Elephant, from The Berain Grotesques Series ↗
The Art Institute of Chicago · artist_display, including alternative workshop directors.
Chicago distinguishes a design by Monnoyer in the style of Berain, Berain’s border design, and weaving at Beauvais under several possible workshop directors.
These are catalogue roles, not a complete list of the people who made the tapestry. The dates do not select one workshop director. Image regions are editorial attention guides, not separable design layers.
Checked 2026-10-24 · source-text. Official institution API fields reviewed, including attribution qualifiers and dimensions.
Why this work appears in these filters
- motif / Animal
- Artologium visual observation · Complete supplied photograph; authored visual observation · reviewed 2026-10-24
- repeat structure / Framed scene
- Artologium visual observation · Complete supplied photograph; authored visual observation · reviewed 2026-10-24
- material / Textile
- Institution record · Object title, attribution, medium / technique and support fields; artist_display, including alternative workshop directors. · reviewed 2026-10-24
- technique / Slit and double-interlocking tapestry weave
- Institution record · Object title, attribution, medium / technique and support fields; artist_display, including alternative workshop directors. · reviewed 2026-10-24
Continue into the collection / Catalogue records & comparisons
Inspect the objects in the catalogue.
The Elephant, from The Berain Grotesques Series
The Art Institute of Chicago · 1956.101. Open the full work, museum attribution, material and dating.
The Petitions [right part] from The Story of Artemisia
Another French workshop tapestry in Chicago where an ornate architectural border frames a figural scene.
A different kind of connection
Compare a monumental woven scene with an image printed for an interior.