FRENCH TAPESTRY, AUBUSSON, FIRST HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY Cm 250X350 Stories of Orpheus of the lyre and the nymph Eurydice: Orpheus, with the sound of his lyre, succeeds in communicating with the animals of the earth and the underworld; the tapestry has an inscription in Latin: 'Orpheus respiciens Eurydice orbatur' which alludes to the impossibility of bringing his beloved back from the dead Good state of preservation, signs of time A FRENCH TAPESTRY, AUBUSSON, FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY; GOOD CONDITIONS, WEARS