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Autumn
Also titled De herfst
Jacob de Wit (Amsterdam, 1695–1754)
1740
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- grisaille
- Dimensions
- height 109 cm x width 110.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- M.C.C. Reynvaan Bequest, Elspeet
- 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
This overdoor, like Winter and Summer elsewhere in this gallery, came from the house of Cornelis Hop in the Nieuwe Doelenstraat in Amsterdam. All three pieces still have their original surrounds. De Wit illustrated Autumn by alluding to the grape harvest. Three putti play with grapevines, a kylix or drinking cup, and a thyrsus, the pinecone-tipped staff of Bacchus, the god of wine.
