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Four Seasons
possibly by Gobelins Manufactory (France, Paris, est. 1662)
designed c. 1535, woven mid- to late 1600s
- Medium
- Wool, silk, and gold filé; tapestry weave
- Classification
- Tapestry
- Dimensions
- Average: 256.5 x 264.2 cm (101 x 104 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Textiles
- Credit line
- Gift of Francis Ginn, Marian Ginn Jones, Barbara Ginn Griesinger, and Alexander Ginn in memory of Frank Hadley Ginn and Cornelia Root Ginn
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Each of these tapestries depict rustic activities appropriate to the season: fishing and gardening for spring, harvesting of grain in summer, wine making for autumn, and ice skating for winter. As tapestries fell out of vogue in the 1700s and 1800s many were burned so their metal threads could be harvested to mint new coins. Before coming to the Cleveland Museum of Art, these tapestries hung in the family home of Frank H. Ginn and Cornelia Root Ginn in Gates Mills, Ohio. Their children donated the tapestries to the museum in 1952.
