id: 130169
accession number: 1952.544.4
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Four Seasons: Winter: Skating 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: 244 x 388 cm (96 1/16 x 152 3/4 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 1952.544.4
title: Winter: Skating Scene
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series: Four Seasons
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creation date: designed c. 1535, woven mid- to late 1600s
creation date earliest: 1530
creation date latest: 1699
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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: Overall: 244 x 388 cm (96 1/16 x 152 3/4 in.)
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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).
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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).', '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, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
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
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: pp. 19, 21; Mentioned: p. 18.
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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.
page number: Mentioned: p. 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. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1918.
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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.
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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
Anderson Galleries, Inc. The Henry Symons Collections. New York: Anderson Galleries, 1923.
page number: no. 1169
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Freund, Karl. "Four Gobelin Tapestries," International Studio. (December 1924), 234-238.
page number: Comparable Material.
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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 (June 1953): 113–119.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 113–119
url: https://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: Comparable Material: pp. 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: Mentioned: pp. 322, 330
url: https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll10/id/61938
Darr, Alan Phipps, Tracey Albainy, and Melanie Holcomb. Woven Splendor: Five Centuries of European Tapestry in the Detroit Institute of Arts. [Detroit]: The Institute, 1996.
page number: pp. 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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Langeois, David, Daniel Alcouffe, and Sandrine Riahi. Quelques chefs-d'oeuvre de la collection Djahanguir Riahi: ameublement français du XVIIIe siècle. [Milano]: Franco Maria Ricci, 1999.
page number: pp. 66–71
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Christies Database. “Brussels Tapestry Depicting Winter from ‘The Seasons of Lucas’ Series” Christies (New York Lot 55). Thursday, November 2, 2000.
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Mironneau, Paul. Musée national du Château de Pau. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2003.
page number: Comparable Material.
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Christie, Manson & Woods. Important Early European Furniture, Sculpture and Tapestries. London: Christie's, Thursday 8 November 2007.
page number: Comparable Material: pp. 122–129, Lots: 123, 124
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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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