Two garden vases with the Four Seasons
Also titled Twee tuinvazen met de vier seizoenen
Jacob Cressant (Abbeville, voor–na 1)
1714
- Medium
- marble (rock)
- Classification
- garden vase
- Dimensions
- height 145 cm x width 78 cm x depth 78 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
These two vases were almost certainly made for the Elsenburg country estate in Maarssen, the property of Amsterdam merchant Theodoor de Leeuw. The classical shape is decorated in several places with asymmetrical ornaments that herald the Rococo style. Examples are the large scrolls above the reliefs representing the seasons.
