The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

The Four Seasons:  Summer

The Four Seasons: Summer

1570
(Netherlandish, c. 1530–c. 1575)
(Flemish, 1527/8–1569)
Catalogue raisonné: Giulio Lari 161 ; Bastelaer 202
Location: not on view

Description

By the mid-16th century printmaking and printselling were big business in Europe. One of the most important firms, in Antwerp, was Hieronymus Cock's Aux quartre Vents (at the Sign of the Four Winds), so named because its goal was to disseminate prints to all four corners of the earth. Breugel collaborated with Cock by supplying drawings that were transformed into prints by professional engravers. In 1565 Bruegel executed a group of paintings of the months of the year based on the tradition of late medieval calendar illumination in which the labors of peasants mark the passage of the seasons. He then produced drawings of Spring and Summer to be engraved by the skillful Pieter van der Heyden. The set was completed with Autumn and Winter after drawings by Hans Bol.
  • [Paul McCarron/Susan Schulman]
  • Cycles of Life: The Four Seasons Tapestries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13, 2022-February 19, 2023).
    From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17-November 26, 2000).
    Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; September 17 - November 26, 2000. "From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints."
    CMA, 1996: "Landscape in Detail," September 10-November 3, 1996, no catalogue
  • {{cite web|title=The Four Seasons: Summer|url=false|author=Pieter van der Heyden, Pieter Bruegel|year=1570|access-date=28 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1995.16