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    "localId": "130169",
    "label": "Winter: Skating Scene",
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    "dtoType": "object"
}

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    "id": "130169",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Winter: Skating Scene",
    "description": "People of all classes and ages enjoyed ice skating, a winter pastime popularized in the Netherlands. Here, some couples are already skating and slipping on the ice, while others tie on their skates or huddle around braziers (portable coal heaters) to keep warm. One affectionate couple in the foreground hold hands as they walk. A castle on the far edge of the frozen lake occupies the background. In the left distance, several small figures holding ladders and long hooks run toward a building that has caught on fire, a frequent occurrence in the winter when wooden houses were heated by fireplaces.",
    "date": "designed c. 1535, woven mid- to late 1600s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.544.4",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60759967"
    ],
    "creators": [
        8592
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Tapestry"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.544.4/1952.544.4_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 244 x 388 cm (96 1/16 x 152 3/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "France"
    ],
    "accession": "1952.544.4"
}

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    "tec": "Wool, silk, and gold filé: tapestry weave",
    "tombstone": "Four Seasons: Winter: Skating Scene, designed c. 1535, woven mid- to late 1600s. Possibly by Gobelins Manufactory (France, Paris, est. 1662). Wool, silk, and gold filé: tapestry weave; overall: 244 x 388 cm (96 1/16 x 152 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Francis Ginn, Marian Ginn Jones, Barbara Ginn Griesinger, and Alexander Ginn in memory of Frank Hadley Ginn and Cornelia Root Ginn, 1952.544.4",
    "series": "Four Seasons",
    "collection": "Textiles",
    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
        "1952.547",
        "392.1923"
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "If you look closely you can see that the top edge of this scene is missing; look at the top of the castle on the right or the forest fire on the left.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Scaturro, Jane and Hanson, Robin. “Cycles of Life: Celebrating the four seasons.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>62, no. 1: 18–21.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 19, 21; Mentioned: p. 18."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Warwick House, Ltd, and Lucas. <em>The Balloch Castle Seasons of Lucas; Being Four Gobelin Tapestries Rich with Gold, 8 Feet 2 Inches High, with Combined Width of 41 Feet 7 Inches, from Balloch Castle, Near Glasgow, Where They Hung for Nearly Two Centuries; a Companion Set to the Famous Months of Lucas, and by the Same Designer</em>. Baltimore: N.T.A. Munder &amp; Co., printers, 1918.",
            "url": "https://archive.org/stream/gri_33125016354546/gri_33125016354546#page/n10/mode/2up"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Hunter, George Leland. \"The Loan Exhibition of Tapestries.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 5, no. 8/9 (October-November 1918): 63–87.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 66",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136215"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Hunter, George Leland. <em>Loan Exhibition of Tapestries</em>. <em>Assembled, Arranged and Catalogued by George Leland Hunter. Cleveland Museum of Art. October 5th December 1st 1918. </em>Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1918.",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/Tapestries_198617/page/n4"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Hunter, George Leland. “The Cleveland Tapestry Exhibition” in <em>The Art World &amp; Arts &amp; Decoration </em>(November 1918) 25–28.",
            "url": "https://books.google.com/books?id=KH0XAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&dq=the+four+seasons+tapestries+lucas&source=bl&ots=QWu0DyxXAj&sig=ACfU3U3Iq8ujNfIEMy8gtfrGGmlfNFP6mw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjwls3e6fPfAhVo2oMKHUd9CgIQ6AEwDHoECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=the%20four%20seasons%20tapestries%20lucas&f=false"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Anderson Galleries, Inc.<em> The Henry Symons Collections.</em> New York: Anderson Galleries, 1923.",
            "page_number": "no. 1169"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Freund, Karl. \"Four Gobelin Tapestries,\" <em>International Studio</em>. (December 1924), 234-238.",
            "page_number": "Comparable Material."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Crick-Kuntziger, Marthe, “L’énigme des ‘Mois de Lucas,’” <em>Actes du XIIe Congr</em>ès <em>international d’Histoire de l’Art</em>. Volume 2. Brussels, 1930. 497–505."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Ward, Evelyn Svec. \"Four Seasons Tapestries from Gobelins.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 40, no. 6 (June 1953): 113–119.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 113–119",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141888"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Standen, Edith A. \"Drawings for the \"Months of Lucas\" Tapestry Series.\" <em>Master Drawings</em> 9, no. 1 (1971): 3–80.",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/1553120"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Standen, Edith Appleton. \"Tapestries in the Collection of the Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute,\" <em>Carnegie Magazine.</em> (December 1981), 3–19.",
            "page_number": "Comparable Material: pp. 2–7"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Standen, Edith Appleton. <em>European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art</em>. New York: The Museum, 1985.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 322, 330",
            "url": "https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll10/id/61938"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Darr, Alan Phipps, Tracey Albainy, and Melanie Holcomb. Woven Splendor: F<em>ive Centuries of European Tapestry in the Detroit Institute of Arts</em>. [Detroit]: The Institute, 1996.",
            "page_number": "pp. 52–54"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Standen, Edith Appleton and Janet Arnold. \"The Comte de Toulouse's 'Months of Lucas' Gobelins Tapestries: Sixteenth-Century Designs with Eighteenth-Century Additions,\" <em>Metropolitan Museum Journal</em> (1996), 59–79.",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/1512972"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Langeois, David, Daniel Alcouffe, Sandrine Riahi, and Musée Du Louvre. <em>Quelques Chefs-D'oeuvre De La Collection Djahanguir Riahi : Ameublement Français Du Xviiie Siècle</em>. Milano: Franco Maria Ricci, 1999.",
            "page_number": "66-8"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Langeois, David, Daniel Alcouffe, and Sandrine Riahi. <em>Quelques chefs-d'oeuvre de la collection Djahanguir Riahi: ameublement français du XVIIIe siècle</em>. [Milano]: Franco Maria Ricci, 1999.",
            "page_number": "pp. 66–71"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Christies Database. <em>“</em>Brussels Tapestry Depicting Winter from ‘The Seasons of Lucas’ Series” <em>Christies</em> (New York Lot 55). Thursday, November 2, 2000."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Mironneau, Paul. <em>Musée national du Château de Pau</em>. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2003.",
            "page_number": "Comparable Material."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Christie, Manson &amp; Woods. <em>Important Early European Furniture, Sculpture and Tapestries</em>. London: Christie's, Thursday 8 November 2007.",
            "page_number": "Comparable Material: pp. 122–129, Lots: 123, 124"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Foundation. “Curating the Fine Art of Giving with the Frank Hadley Ginn &amp; Cornelia Root Ginn Charitable Trust,”in <em>Gift of Giving news for donors and friends of the Cleveland Foundation. </em>Spring 2018. 4–5."
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.544.4",
    "creditline": "Gift of Francis Ginn, Marian Ginn Jones, Barbara Ginn Griesinger, and Alexander Ginn in memory of Frank Hadley Ginn and Cornelia Root Ginn",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:43:43.533000",
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    "dept": "Textiles",
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