Typical example of late- seventeenth-century tapestries depicting mythological scenes in wooded or parklike settings. From about 1660, these immensely popular light-hearted and slightly erotic mythological sets, usually depicting stories from Ovid's famous Metamorphoses were the lifeblood of the majority of Flemish and French workshops. The limited color range of these fashionable series and the absence of intricate large-sclae figures made them less costyly to execute than history sets. Antwerp and Oudenarde tapissiers in particular focused on this genre.