1953.103: Allegory of Fall
Textile Arts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1953.103
- People
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Lodewijk van Schoor, Flemish (1666 - 1726)
- Title
- Allegory of Fall
- Classification
- Textile Arts
- Work Type
- tapestry
- Date
- c. 1700
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Belgium, Brussels
- Culture
- Flemish
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/215028
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- wool and silk
- Dimensions
- 297.2 x 434.3 cm (117 x 171 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Mr. and Mrs. Harold L. Chalifoux, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1953
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold L. Chalifoux
- Accession Year
- 1953
- Object Number
- 1953.103
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- This work exemplifies a popular late seventeenth-century tapestry type: hybrid genre-landscapes ("genres mythologiques"), which were usually marketed as sets. A female figure representing Fall is seated on a rocky mound and holds a tall rod with grapevines. While the foreground and sides are framed with sharply rendered foliage and still-life elements, the landscape opens into a soft valley at right. The copper wine vessels, squash, grapes, and apple tree in bloom are all attributes of Fall, as are the five male and female attendant figures bearing the fruits of the season's harvest on silver platters.
Publication History
- Jean-Paul Asselberghs, Les tapisseries flamandes aux états-unis d'amérique, Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire (Brussels, 1974), p. 16
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