Allegory of Spring

Artists

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.

Dimensions

292.1 x 246.4 cm (115 x 97 in.)

Provenance

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