id: 130165
accession number: 1952.544
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.544
updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:26.649000
Four Seasons, designed c. 1535, woven mid- to late 1600s. Possibly by Gobelins Manufactory (France, Paris, est. 1662). Wool, silk, and gold filé; tapestry weave; average: 256.5 x 264.2 cm (101 x 104 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Francis Ginn, Marian Ginn Jones, Barbara Ginn Griesinger, and Alexander Ginn in memory of Frank Hadley Ginn and Cornelia Root Ginn 1952.544
title: Four Seasons
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creation date: designed c. 1535, woven mid- to late 1600s
creation date earliest: 1530
creation date latest: 1700
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creditline: Gift of Francis Ginn, Marian Ginn Jones, Barbara Ginn Griesinger, and Alexander Ginn in memory of Frank Hadley Ginn and Cornelia Root Ginn
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culture: France
technique: Wool, silk, and gold filé; tapestry weave
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
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measurements: Average: 256.5 x 264.2 cm (101 x 104 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Cycles of Life: The Four Seasons Tapestries
opening date: 2022-02-13T05:00:00
Cycles of Life: The Four Seasons Tapestries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13, 2022-February 19, 2023).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Tapestries by French, Italy, English, and American Designers, from Various Lenders, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 5, 1918-December 1, 1918). [1952.544.1 and 1952.544.4 only]', 'opening_date': '1918-10-05T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Balloch Castle, Scotland.
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Henry Symons Sale: Anderson Galleries, New York, January 27-Febuary 3, 1923
date: January 27-Febuary 3, 1923
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Frank Hadley Ginn (1868-1938) and Cornelia Winifred Root Ginn (1877-1937), Cleveland, OH
date: 1923-1952
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1952-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Warwick House, Ltd, and Lucas. The Balloch Castle Seasons of Lucas; Being Four Gobelin Tapestries Rich with Gold, 8 Feet 2 Inches High, with Combined Width of 41 Feet 7 Inches, from Balloch Castle, Near Glasgow, Where They Hung for Nearly Two Centuries; a Companion Set to the Famous Months of Lucas, and by the Same Designer. Baltimore: N.T.A. Munder & Co., printers, 1918.
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url: https://archive.org/stream/gri_33125016354546/gri_33125016354546#page/n10/mode/2up
Hunter, George Leland. "The Loan Exhibition of Tapestries." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 5, no. 8/9 (October-November 1918): 63-87
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url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136215
Hunter, George Leland. Loan Exhibition of Tapestries. Assembled, Arranged and Catalogued by George Leland Hunter. Cleveland Museum of Art. October 5th December 1st 1918.
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url: https://archive.org/details/Tapestries_198617
Hunter, George Leland. “The Cleveland Tapestry Exhibition” in The Art World & Arts & Decoration (November 1918) 25-28.
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url: https://books.google.com/books?id=KH0XAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&dq=the+four+seasons+tapestries+lucas&source=bl&ots=QWu0DyxXAj&sig=ACfU3U3Iq8ujNfIEMy8gtfrGGmlfNFP6mw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjwls3e6fPfAhVo2oMKHUd9CgIQ6AEwDHoECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=the%20four%20seasons%20tapestries%20lucas&f=false
Hunter, George Leland. "The Cleveland Tapestry Exhibition." The American Magazine of Art 10, no. 4 (1919): 129-37.
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url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23925160
Anderson Galleries, Inc. The Henry Symons Collections. New York: Anderson Galleries, 1923.
page number: nos. 1166-69
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Freund, Karl. "Four Gobelin Tapestries," International Studio. (December 1924), 234-238.
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Crick-Kuntziger, Marthe, “L’énigme des ‘Mois de Lucas,’” Actes du XIIe Congrès international d’Histoire de l’Art. Volume 2. Brussels, 1930. 497-505.
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Ward, Evelyn Svec. "Four Seasons Tapestries from Gobelins." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 40, no. 6 (1953): 113-19.
page number: 113-119
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141888
Standen, Edith A. "Drawings for the "Months of Lucas" Tapestry Series." Master Drawings 9, no. 1 (1971): 3-80.
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url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1553120
Standen, Edith Appleton. "Tapestries in the Collection of the Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute," Carnegie Magazine. (December 1981), 3-19.
page number: 2-7
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Standen, Edith Appleton. European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Museum, 1985.
page number: 322, 330
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Detroit Institute of Arts, Alan Phipps Darr, Tracey Albainy, and Melanie Holcomb. Woven Splendor: Five Centuries of European Tapestry in the Detroit Institute of Arts. [Detroit]: The Institute, 1996.
page number: 52-54
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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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url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1512972
Langeois, David, Daniel Alcouffe, Sandrine Riahi, and Musée Du Louvre. Quelques Chefs-D'oeuvre De La Collection Djahanguir Riahi : Ameublement Français Du Xviiie Siècle. Milano: Franco Maria Ricci, 1999.
page number: 66-8
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Mironneau, Paul. Musée national du Château de Pau. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2003.
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Cleveland Foundation. “Curating the Fine Art of Giving with the Frank Hadley Ginn & Cornelia Root Ginn Charitable Trust,”in Gift of Giving news for donors and friends of the Cleveland Foundation. Spring 2018. 4-5.
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Lennard, Frances, Patricia Ewer, and Laura Mina. Textile Conservation: Advances in Practice. Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2024.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 610, fig. 8.5.3
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IMAGES
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