id:			136291
accession number:	1960.176.3
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.176.3
updated:		2025-06-24 17:46:06.760000

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)
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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:			

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culture:	France, Lyon(?), early 16th century
technique:	silk and wool; tapestry weave
department:	Textiles
collection:	Textiles
type:		Tapestry
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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 326.6 x 434.1 cm (128 9/16 x 170 7/8 in.)
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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:	
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Chefs d'oeuvre de la Tapisserie du XIVème au XVIème siècle (Tapestry Masterpieces from the 14th to the 16th Century)
	opening date:   1973-10-26T04:00:00
	<i>Chefs d'oeuvre de la Tapisserie du XIVème au XVIème siècle (Tapestry Masterpieces from the 14th to the 16th Century)</i>. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France (organizer) (October 26, 1973-January 7, 1974); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (February 7-April 19, 1974).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	one of set of three allegorical tapestries from the Chateau de Chaumont, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France until 1907
	date: ?–1907
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	(Duveen Collection, New York, NY, sold to Clarence H. MacKay)
	date: 1925
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	Clarence H. MacKay [1874–1938] New York, NY
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	(French & Co., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: 1939–1960
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1960–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Shepherd, Dorothy G. "Three Tapestries from Chaumont." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 48, no. 7 (September 1961): 159–177
	page number: 	pp. 159-177
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25142461

	Saisselin, Remy G. "Literary Background of the Chaumont Tapestries." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 48, no. 7 (September 1961).
	page number: 	pp. 178–181
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25142462

	Wixom, William D., and Leona E. Prasse. "Traditions in the Chaumont Tapestries." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 48, no. 7 (September 1961): 182–190.
	page number: 	pp. 182–190
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25142463

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 75
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n99

	Wixom, William D. <em>Treasures from Medieval France.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 340
	url:		https://archive.org/details/TreasuresMedievalFrance/page/n367

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. 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. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 85
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n105

	Seaton, Douglass. <em>Ideas and Styles in the Western Musical Tradition</em>. Mountain View, Calif: Mayfield Pub. Co, 1991.
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	Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. <em>The Middle Ages in 50 Objects</em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 154–157; Reproduced: p. 155
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	Vignon, Charlotte, and Ian Wardropper. <em>Duveen Brothers and the Market for Decorative Arts, 1880-1940</em>. New York: The Frick Collection in association with D Giles Limited, London, 2019.
	page number: 	Mentioned & reproduced:  pp. 218, fig. 78 - 219
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