Summer: A landscape with peasants dipping sheep in a river; and Winter: A village scene with peasants felling trees

Reine de Bertier de Sauvigny (loc. cit.) links these two pictures with four other panels whose dimensions are the same, which she groups as 'saisons rectangulaires', thus raising the possibility that they once formed part of a set of the seasons or alternatively a larger series of the months of the year. The theme of sheep-dipping recurs in a circular depiction of May (private collection; op. cit., p. 94, no. 4, pl. 40) while wood-cutting was normally associated with the month of November (see, for instance, Abel Grimmer's circular picture of 1603, from a set of seven months, ibid., p. 214, no. XL).