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Seasons and Elements (Air) (set of four)
Designer Attributed to Charles Le Brun
Designer Border probably designed by Jean Lemoyne le Lorrain
Manufactory Probably made at the Convent of Saint Joseph-de-la-Providence, Paris
Patron Commissioned for Marquise de Montespan
ca. 1683
- Medium
- Canvas; silk, wool, and metal-thread embroidery in tent stitch (316 stitches per sq. inch, 49 stitches per sq. cm.)
- Classification
- Textiles-Embroidered
- Dimensions
- L. 168 x W. 108 in. (426.7 x 274.3 cm)
- Culture
- French
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1946
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
