id: 130167 accession number: 1952.544.2 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.544.2 updated: 2025-06-25 11:06:46.447000 Four Seasons: Summer: Harvest Scene, designed c. 1535, woven mid- to late 1600s. Possibly by Gobelins Manufactory (France, Paris, est. 1662). Wool, silk, and gold filé: tapestry weave; overall: 254 x 255 cm (100 x 100 3/8 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, 1952.544.2 title: Summer: Harvest Scene title in original language: series: Four Seasons series in original language: creation date: designed c. 1535, woven mid- to late 1600s creation date earliest: 1530 creation date latest: 1699 current location: creditline: Gift of Francis Ginn, Marian Ginn Jones, Barbara Ginn Griesinger, and Alexander Ginn in memory of Frank Hadley Ginn and Cornelia Root Ginn copyright: --- culture: France technique: Wool, silk, and gold filé: tapestry weave department: Textiles collection: Textiles type: Tapestry find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- 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 --- measurements: Overall: 254 x 255 cm (100 x 100 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Cycles of Life: The Four Seasons Tapestries opening date: 2022-02-12T05:00:00 Cycles of Life: The Four Seasons Tapestries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13, 2022-February 19, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Balloch Castle, Scotland date: footnotes: citations: Henry Symons Sale: Anderson Galleries, New York, January 27-Febuary 3, 1923 date: January 27-Febuary 3, 1923 footnotes: citations: Frank Hadley Ginn (1868-1938) and Cornelia Winifred Root Ginn (1877-1937), Cleveland, OH date: 1923-1952 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1952- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Scaturro, Jane and Hanson, Robin. “Cycles of Life: Celebrating the four seasons.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 62, no. 1: 18-21. page number: Reproduced: P. 20; Mentioned: P. 18. url: 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. page number: 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. page number: 66 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. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/Tapestries_198617/page/n4 Hunter, George Leland. “The Cleveland Tapestry Exhibition” in The Art World & Arts & Decoration (November 1918) 25-28. page number: 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 Anderson Galleries, Inc. The Henry Symons Collections. New York: Anderson Galleries, 1923. page number: no. 1167 url: Freund, Karl. "Four Gobelin Tapestries," International Studio. (December 1924), 234-238. page number: url: 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. page number: url: 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. page number: 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.

Carnegie Institute, Carnegie Institute of Technology, and Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Carnegie Magazine. Pittsburgh: The Institute, 1928. page number: 2-7 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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. page number: 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 url: Mironneau, Paul. Musée national du Château de Pau. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2003. page number: url: Christies, Manson & Woods. Important Early European Furniture, Sculpture and Tapestries: Thursday 8 November 2007. London: Christie's, 2007. page number: 122-129 url: 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. page number: url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.544.2/1952.544.2_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.544.2/1952.544.2_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.544.2/1952.544.2_full.tif