Southern Netherlandish weavers

The Unicorn Rests in a Garden was designed by a French artist and woven in the Southern Netherlands between 1495 and 1505. The names of the designer and the weavers are not known. It is a late Gothic tapestry.

It is the seventh and final piece in the series known as the Unicorn Tapestries, and it is also known as The Unicorn in Captivity. A unicorn is shown chained to a tree inside a small circular fence, against a background of many kinds of plants and flowers. Other details include a collar, a pomegranate and a frog.

The tapestry has a wool warp, with wefts of wool, silk, silver and gilt thread. It measures 12 feet 7/8 inch by 8 feet 3 inches (368 by 251.5 centimeters).

John D. Rockefeller Jr. gave it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1937 (accession number 37.80.6). It is on permanent view at The Cloisters in New York, part of the Met.