December. Master of the Months of Lucas (Netherlandish (before 1600), 1535) (author of design) [painter] 1731-1743 Tapestry Dimensions: H 11'3" x W 11'7" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Paris Ownership History: Lord Winborne coll., Winborne Castle. Marquis da Foz coll., Lisbon. Peter A. B. Widener & Joseph E. Widener coll., Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park Pennsylvania; sold at Samuel T. Freeman (Philadelphia), 6/20/1944-6/24/1944, lot 489. French & Co. purchased from Jack Linsky 6/20/1944 [or 6/21/1944?]; sold to Aliata, Inc. 1/18/1963. In winter landscape, g
December. Master of the Months of Lucas (Netherlandish (before 1600), 1535) (author of design) [painter] 1731-1743 Tapestry Dimensions: H 11'3" x W 11'7" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: French Weaving Center: Paris Ownership History: Lord Winborne coll., Winborne Castle. Marquis da Foz coll., Lisbon. Peter A. B. Widener & Joseph E. Widener coll., Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park Pennsylvania; sold at Samuel T. Freeman (Philadelphia), 6/20/1944-6/24/1944, lot 489. French & Co. purchased from Jack Linsky 6/20/1944 [or 6/21/1944?]; sold to Aliata, Inc. 1/18/1963. In winter landscape, gentleman hands fruit to child seated next to woman (L); seated couple watches people ice skate on frozen pond (center); courtly couple strolls (R); palace & village in background (BRD) picture-frame border, garlanded rosette cartouche in corners; (UPR BRD) centered cartouche with Capricorn Version of 3rd border. French & Co. stock sheet in archive, 77063 Fénaille, Gobelins 2 (1903-1923), 337-70 Standen, Tapestries in the Metropolitan 1 (1985), 358-60 Göbel, Wandteppiche II:1 (1928), 143-45 McCall, Widener Collection of Tapestries (1932), 32-36, 75-78, pl. 9 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0243834, 0243840-0243846, 1 panel (January) sold at Sotheby's (London), 7/23/1937, lot 63; compositionally similar sets: GCPA 0243812-0243814, 0243817-0243818 (set A), GCPA 0243825-0243830 (Metropolitan Museum of Art set), GCPA 0243847-0243848 (Palazzo Doria set), GCPA 0243853-0243856 (Ffoulke set), GCPA 0243851-0243852 (Sotheby's set), GCPA 0243819-0243824 (Toulouse/Noailles set); compositionally similar tapestries: GCPA 0243833, 0243847, 0238261 (Brussels), Sotheby's (New York), 3/25/1972, lot 218
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