View of the Room of the Virtues

View of the Hall of Virtues with the tapestry The expulsion of the merchants from the temple. It is part of the majestic series of the New Testament, manufactured by the Gobelins, and comes from the papal collections. Eight pieces of this series, woven between 1753 and 1764 in the ateliers of Michel Audran and Pierre-François Cozette from cartoons by Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet and Jean Restout, they were donated by Napoleon I to Pius VII Chiaramonti in 1805. Four of them remained at the Quirinale when the palace was handed over to the Savoy family.
This cloth, dated 1759, was made between 1757 and 1759 in the atelier of Michel Audran, whose signature we can read, from a cartoon by Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet of 1713-1714.