# Valois Tapestries: Festival on the Water [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SPIERING, François]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Silk, gold, silver, and wool, lined with canvas, 403 x 339 cm ## Commentary The Valois Tapestries are a series of eight tapestries depicting festivities or "magnificences" at the Court of France in the second half of the 16th century. The tapestries were executed either in the workshop of Spiering, or by Joos van Herseel and Franchoys Sweerts. The tapestries were designed by Antoine Caron. Caterina de' Medici, queen of France, gave them to her beloved granddaughter Christine of Lorraine, when Christine came to Florence to marry her kissing cousin Ferdinand I. All but one of the hangings depict a series of magnificences that Caterina produced in the 1560s and 1570s. At the right of the Festival on the Water are Henry III and Louise of Lorraine. ## Related artworks - [Amadigi Rescuing Oriana \(detail\)]() - [Amadigi Rescuing Oriana]() - [Caparison]() - [Cephalus and Procris \(detail\)]() - [Cephalus and Procris]() - [Jupiter and Callisto]() - [Niobe's Pride]() - [Scenes from the Amadigi di Gaula \(detail\)]() - [Scenes from the Amadigi di Gaula]() - [The Liberation of Oriane]() - [The Meeting between David and Abigail]() - [Urgande Handing over the Lance to Amadis]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()