A Madonna in Tapestry.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 30, 24 July 1902, Page 15

A Madonna in Tapestry.

A lady whoße home is in Dresden has exeouted a wonderful pieo« of embroidery, the subject being the Sistine Madonna. Indeed, she has witb her needle copied the famous painting bo perfectly that those who behold it are amazed when they are told that it is done with silken threads instead of oil colors. She was engaged upon the task for more than five years, ÜBing variously colored silk flora and a number of different stitcher In this Bort of work, which may be called tapestry painting, the eyea are the most difficult part to represent. Many persona hare Bucceeded with the main portions of an embroidered picture and failed with that ; but Fraulein Clara has kept to the very expression of the eyes of Our Lady. As soon as this marvellous picture was completed the King and Queen of Saxony came to see it, and it was afterwards exhibited at St. Petersburg: and London, finding: its way eventually to the Paris Exposition, where it received a gold medal from the judges.