Winter. Master of the Months of Lucas (Netherlandish (before 1600), 1535) (author of design) [painter] c. 1650-1670 Tapestry Dimensions: H 12'8" x W 20'5" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool Culture: French Weaving Center: Paris Ownership History: King Louis Philippe coll., Château de Neuilly; sold at Domaine de Monceaux (Paris), 1/28/1852, lot 15; purchased by George O. Hovey. George O. Hovey coll., Boston. Exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1898-1929). Mr & Mrs. John T. Morse, Jr. coll., Boston; sold at American Art Association (New York), 11/23/1929, lot 425. French & Co. Mrs. Al

Winter. Master of the Months of Lucas (Netherlandish (before 1600), 1535) (author of design) [painter] c. 1650-1670 Tapestry Dimensions: H 12'8" x W 20'5" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool Culture: French Weaving Center: Paris Ownership History: King Louis Philippe coll., Château de Neuilly; sold at Domaine de Monceaux (Paris), 1/28/1852, lot 15; purchased by George O. Hovey. George O. Hovey coll., Boston. Exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1898-1929). Mr & Mrs. John T. Morse, Jr. coll., Boston; sold at American Art Association (New York), 11/23/1929, lot 425. French & Co. Mrs. Alexander H. McLanahan coll. William Randolph Hearst coll. Gift of the Hearst Foundation (1954). United States, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, accno. In winter landscape, men & women ice skate on frozen lake; men rush to put out burning building (L background); large palace with god of wind above (center); men feed hogs & gather wood (R background) (BRD) floral garland inside spiraling acanthus band French & Co. stock sheet missing from archive, 35278 Standen, Tapestries in the Metropolitan 1 (1985), 329-30 Hunter, Practical book of Tapestries (1925), 152 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0243809-0243810; compositionally similar set: GCPA 0243880-0243882 (Metropolitan Museum of Art set); compositionally similar tapestry (same cartoon): GCPA 0243880, 0244079

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