1956.219: Allegory of Spring

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1956.219

People

Lodewijk van Schoor, Flemish (1666 - 1726)
Pieter Spierinckx (1635 - 1711)
Woven by Jan van den Hecke the Elder, Flemish (1620 - 1684)
Previously attributed to Unidentified Artist

Title

Allegory of Spring

Other Titles

Former Title: Allegory of Spring or Summer from Set of Four Seasons

Classification

Textile Arts

Work Type

tapestry

Date

c. 1700

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Belgium, Brussels

Culture

Flemish

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/215032

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Wool and silk

Dimensions

292.1 x 246.4 cm (115 x 97 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Mrs. Harold L. Chalifoux, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1956

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Harold L. Chalifoux

Accession Year

1956

Object Number

1956.219

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

This tapestry depicts a central female figure of Spring raising a bouquet in one hand and touching a basket full of freshly cut flowers with the other hand. Five female attendants surround her, attired in elegant satin robes and coiffed with hair piled high in the fashionable fontange style of the period. In the background is a palace courtyard and garden. This tapestry belonged to a series of the Four Seasons. See entry for 1953.103.

Publication History

• Jean-Paul Asselberghs, Les tapisseries flamandes aux états-unis d'amérique, Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire (Brussels, 1974), p. 16

Related Works

• 1953.103

  Lodewijk van Schoor

  Allegory of Fall

  Textile Arts

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