id: 123539
accession number: 1944.133
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Month of May: Scene of May Day Festival, 1723–1774. Gobelins Manufactory (France, Paris, est. 1662), Michel Audran (French, 1701–1771). Tapestry weave: linen warp, wool and silk wefts; overall: 2841.9 x 454.3 cm (1118 7/8 x 178 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection 1944.133
title: Month of May: Scene of May Day Festival
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creation date: 1723–1774
creation date earliest: 1723
creation date latest: 1774
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creditline: The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection
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culture: France, 18th century, Period of Louis XV (1723-1774)
technique: tapestry weave: linen warp, wool and silk wefts
department: Textiles
collection: Textiles
type: Tapestry
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CREATORS
* Gobelins Manufactory (France, Paris, est. 1662) - manufacturer
For more information: http://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/view/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-7000032919
* Michel Audran (French, 1701–1771) - artist
French tapissier, 1701-1771
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measurements: Overall: 2841.9 x 454.3 cm (1118 7/8 x 178 7/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Exhibition of the Month: Chinese Furniture
opening date: 1946-10-29T05:00:00
Exhibition of the Month: Chinese Furniture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 29-December 30, 1946).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Loan Exhibition of Tapestries. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH ([October 5-December 1, 1918)', 'opening_date': '1918-10-05T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1944-
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Fenaille, Maurice, Fernand Calmettes, and Jules Guiffrey. État général des tapisseries de la Manufacture des Gobelins depuis son origine jusqu'a jours, 1600-1900. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, Hachette, 1903.
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Ffoulke, Charles Mather, Sarah Cushing Ffoulke, Glenn Brown, and Ernest Verlant. The Ffoulke Collection of Tapestries. New York: Priv. Print, 1913.
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url: https://archive.org/details/ffoulkecollectio00ffou/page/344
Hunter, George Leland. "The Loan Exhibition of Tapestries." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 5, no. 8/9 (1918): 63-87. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136215
page number: 65
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136215
Hunter, George Leland. “The Loan Exhibition of Tapestries.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. (October-November, 1918), 63-66
page number: 63-66
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Hunter, George Leland. Loan Exhibition of Tapestries. Cleveland Museum of Art. October 5th-December 1st 1918.
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Hunter, George Leland. “The Cleveland Tapestry Exhibition” in The Art World & Arts & Decoration (November 1918) 25-28.
page number: 25-28
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Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss collection : bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. Published as: Tapestry: Month of May
page number: Mentioned: p. 66; Reproduced: XXIII
url: https://archive.org/details/Prentiss/page/n55
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page number: 102
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141134
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Standen, Edith Appleton and Janet Arnold. "The Comte de Toulouse's 'Months of Lucas' Gobelins Tapestries: Sixteenth-Century Designs with Eighteenth-Century Additions," Metropolitan Museum Journal. (1996), 59-79.
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Mironneau, Paul. Musée national du Château de Pau. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2003.
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