id: 130168 accession number: 1952.544.3 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.544.3 updated: 2023-03-09 12:47:48.734000 Four Seasons: Autumn: Vintage 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: 263 x 370 cm (103 9/16 x 145 11/16 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 1952.544.3 title: Autumn: Vintage 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: 263 x 370 cm (103 9/16 x 145 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Cycles of Life: The Four Seasons Tapestries opening date: 2022-02-13T05:00:00 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: Originally green, the plants were woven using yarn first dyed blue and then dyed yellow; over time the yellow dye has faded so that today the plants appear blue. digital description: wall description: In 16th-century Europe, the grape harvest took place in autumn, a tradition that persists among vintners to this day. Here, men and women gather grapes in buckets and drop them into an enormous wood vat. Two men stomp on the ripe grapes, squeezing out the juice. A man on the far right pours the juice into barrels, where it will ferment into wine. Children sleep or play in the foreground; one mischievous toddler presses grape juice into the mouth of another small child. In the distance four couples dance to music provided by a bagpiper, who is perched in a tree. --- 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. 18, 21; 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. 1168 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: 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. 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. London: Christie's, Thursday November 8, 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. 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