id: 136291 accession number: 1960.176.3 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.176.3 updated: 2020-05-19 09:05:09.372000 Time (From Chateau de Chaumont Set), 1512–15. France, Lyon(?), early 16th century. Silk and wool; tapestry weave; overall: 326.6 x 434.1 cm (128 9/16 x 170 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1960.176.3 title: Time (From Chateau de Chaumont Set) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1512–15 creation date earliest: 1512 creation date latest: 1515 current location: 113 French Tapestries & Illuminated Manuscripts creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: France, Lyon(?), early 16th century technique: silk and wool; tapestry weave department: Textiles collection: Textiles type: Tapestry find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 326.6 x 434.1 cm (128 9/16 x 170 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: French verse in Gothic letters translates as follows: "One sees the weather adorned in green, Sometimes as pleasing as an angel; To suddenly change and be quite strange, The weather never stays the same." translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Chefs d'oeuvre de la tapisserie du XIVe au XVIe siecle. Grand Palais, Paris, France (October 26, 1973- January 7, 1974); Masterpieces of Tapestry. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (February 7-April 19, 1974).
Gallery 113 tapestry rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 20, 2012- ). --- PROVENANCE one of set of three allegorical tapestries from the Chateau de Chaumont until 1907; Duveen Collection, New York, in 1925; Clarence H. MacKay Collection until 1939; (French & Co., New York). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Pierre Sala, who likely commissioned the set, is portrayed as the richly attired central figure offering a bouquet, a symbol of knowledge, to Éléonore, his daughter. Éléonore is pregnant, revealed by her upturned skirt and the persimmon in her husband Hector’s hand. Hector’s mother, Marguerite, in dark attire, will wed the widowed Sala in 1519. They appear in front of the royal chateau of Blois. The figures at the right convey Sala’s advice to his children. Time (the old man with the staff) with Clio, the Muse of History, standing on his shoulders, is being attacked by a Herculean youth wielding a stick. With this allegory, Sala is explaining that youth is ignorant of the complexities of life and time. The small unicorn at the far right represents the soul. The verse in Old French at the top refers to changing time: One sees Time adorned with green foliage, Sometimes as pleasant as an angel, Then suddenly change and become quite strange. Never does Time persist in one state. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Shepherd, Dorothy G. "Three Tapestries from Chaumont." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 48, no. 7 (1961): 159-77 page number: p. 159-177 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25142461 Saisselin, Remy G. "Literary Background of the Chaumont Tapestries." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 48, no. 7 (1961). page number: p. 178-181 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25142462 Wixom, William D., and Leona E. Prasse. "Traditions in the Chaumont Tapestries." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 48, no. 7 (1961): 182-90 page number: p. 182-190 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25142463 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 75 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n99 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 75 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n99 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 85 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n105 Seaton, Douglass. Ideas and Styles in the Western Musical Tradition. Mountain View, Calif: Mayfield Pub. Co, 1991. page number: url: Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. The Middle Ages in 50 Objects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. page number: Mentioned: p. 154-157; Reproduced: p. 155 url: Vignon, Charlotte, and Ian Wardropper. Duveen Brothers and the Market for Decorative Arts, 1880-1940. 2019. page number: Mentioned & reproduced: pp. 218, fig. 78 - 219 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.176.3/1960.176.3_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.176.3/1960.176.3_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.176.3/1960.176.3_full.tif