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

細節

Jacob Grimmer (Antwerp 1525-1590)
Summer: A landscape with peasants dipping sheep in a river; and Winter: A village scene with peasants felling trees
the first signed and dated 'GRIMER FECIT.1585' (lower right); and the second signed and dated 'GRIMER. F 1585' (lower centre)
oil on panel
10¾ x 14 7/8 in. (27.3 x 37.8 cm.)
a pair (2)

來源

with Brian Koetser, London, 1967.

出版

E. Greindl, Monographie de Jacob Grimmer, Vienna, 1972, p. 18, no. 14; and p. 12, pl. 5.
R. de Bertier de Sauvigny, Jacob et Abel Grimmer, Brussels, 1991, p. 70, no. XXVIII.

展覽

Vienna, Gallerie Friedrich Pallamar, Die Hals - Familie und ihr Zeit, 15 November-31 December 1972.

注意事項

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拍品專文

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).