从一组“马”中摧毁尼奥贝的孩子 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	从一组“马”中摧毁尼奥贝的孩子
品名（英）	The Destruction of the Children of Niobe from a set of "The Horses"
入馆年号	1936年，36.149.1
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者	Frans Cleyn【1582 至 1658】【德国人】
创作年份	公元 1645 - 公元 1675
创作地区
分类	纺织品挂毯（Textiles-Tapestries）
尺寸	整体: 152 × 232 (386.1 × 589.3 厘米)
介绍（中）	这幅挂毯描绘了阿波罗神和戴安娜神杀死尼奥贝的孩子，作为对尼奥贝对他们的母亲拉托纳造成的侮辱的惩罚。这个面板衍生的布景被称为"马"，因为神话主题是一个薄薄的借口，描绘了一系列充满活力的马匹。这些设计由罗斯托克人弗朗西斯·克莱恩（Francis Cleyn）创作，他在1620年代初前往英国之前曾在丹麦宫廷工作。1625年，他被任命为Mortlake挂毯作品的官方设计师，并在接下来的十年中提供了一系列新的设计系列，包括"马"。在1637年之前，查理一世提供了两件高质量的编织品，其中只有一块幸存下来（伦敦维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆）。内战结束后，Mortlake作品继续从克莱恩的设计中编织出来，但这些后来的编织缺乏早期生产所特有的材料质量和熟练的工艺。这套套装是在 1650 年代或 1660 年代的某个时候为彼得伯勒第二伯爵亨利·莫当特编织的，他的手臂出现在上边界，以及他的妻子佩内洛普·奥布莱恩的手臂。
介绍（英）	This tapestry depicts the gods Apollo and Diana killing the children of Niobe as a punishment for the affront that Niobe had caused their mother, Latona. The set from which this panel derived was known as "The Horses" because the mythological subjects were a thinly veiled pretext to depict a sequence of splendid horses in dynamic action. The designs were created by Francis Cleyn, a native of Rostock who worked at the Danish court before traveling to England in the early 1620s. He was appointed official designer to the Mortlake tapestry works in 1625, and during the following decade provided a sequence of new design series, including "The Horses." Two high-quality weavings of this subject were provided to Charles I before 1637, of which only one fragment survives (Victoria and Albert Museum, London). Following the Civil War, the Mortlake works continued to weave from Cleyn's designs, but these later weavings lacked the quality of materials and skilled craftsmanship that characterized earlier production. This set was woven sometime in the 1650s or 1660s for Henry Mordaunt, second earl of Peterborough, whose arms appear in the upper border, along with those of his wife, Penelope O'Brien.