id: 130169 accession number: 1952.544.4 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.544.4 updated: 2022-03-04 10:00:24.112000 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 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: 234 Textile Gallery 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: 244 x 388 cm (96 1/16 x 152 3/4 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 * Tapestries by French, Italy, English, and American Designers, from Various Lenders, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 5, 1918-December 1, 1918). --- 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: If you look closely you can see that the top edge of this scene is missing; look at the top of the castle on the right or the forest fire on the left. digital description: wall description: People of all classes and ages enjoyed ice skating, a winter pastime popularized in the Netherlands. Here, some couples are already skating and slipping on the ice, while others tie on their skates or huddle around braziers (portable coal heaters) to keep warm. One affectionate couple in the foreground hold hands as they walk. A castle on the far edge of the frozen lake occupies the background. In the left distance, several small figures holding ladders and long hooks run toward a building that has caught on fire, a frequent occurrence in the winter when wooden houses were heated by fireplaces. --- RELATED WORKS --- 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. 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. 1169 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: 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: p. 66-71 url: Christies Database. “Brussels Tapestry Depicting Winter from ‘The Seasons of Lucas’ Series” Christies (New York Lot 55). Thursday, November 2, 2000. page number: url: Mironneau, Paul. Musée national du Château de Pau. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2003. page number: url: Christie, Manson & Woods. Important Early European Furniture, Sculpture and Tapestries. London: Christie's, Thursday 8 November 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/1952.544.4/1952.544.4_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.544.4/1952.544.4_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.544.4/1952.544.4_full.tif