November. Master of the Months of Lucas (Netherlandish (before 1600), 1535) (author of design) [painter] 1731-1743 Tapestry Dimensions: H 11'7" x W 9'8" 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), 6/21/1944, lot 489. French & Co. purchased from Jack Linsky 6/20/1944 [or 6/21/1944?]; sold to Mr. Robert Mikaeloff 7/21/1966. Farm man & woman prepare
November. Master of the Months of Lucas (Netherlandish (before 1600), 1535) (author of design) [painter] 1731-1743 Tapestry Dimensions: H 11'7" x W 9'8" 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), 6/21/1944, lot 489. French & Co. purchased from Jack Linsky 6/20/1944 [or 6/21/1944?]; sold to Mr. Robert Mikaeloff 7/21/1966. Farm man & woman prepare to sow seeds, while infant reaches into sack of seeds & woman carries sack; woman brings food to man (R); in background, village & farm, with men sowing seeds, plowing fields & loading cart (BRD) picture-frame border, garlanded rosette cartouche in corners; (UPR BRD) centered by cartouche with Sagittarius 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), 356 Göbel, Wandteppiche II:1 (1928), 143-45 McCall, Widener Collection of Tapestries (1932), 32-36, 75-78, pl. 8 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: 0243823, 0243829, 0243852, sold at Sotheby's (New York), 3/25/1972, lot 218
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