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La Dame à la licorne
the Lady and the Unicorn
also: the Lady and the Unicorn, Dame à la Licorne
The six late-medieval tapestries of The Lady and the Unicorn (now in the Musée de Cluny, Paris): a lady with a lion and a unicorn on a flowered blue island, beneath the arms of the Le Viste family (three silver crescents on a blue bend, on red). Five render the senses; the sixth, marked 'A mon seul désir,' renounces them. Malte walks Abelone through all six.
Reading notes
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §230 There are tapestries here, Abelone, wall-hangings
The six tapestries of La Dame à la licorne (Musée de Cluny): one woman, 'always the same,' on an oval blue island in a red flowered ground, flanked by a lion and a unicorn bearing the Le Viste arms — three silver crescents on a blue band, on red. Five panels figure the senses; the sixth gathers them into renunciation.