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    "localId": "123539",
    "label": "Month of May: Scene of May Day Festival",
    "core": "obj",
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    "id": "123539",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Month of May: Scene of May Day Festival",
    "description": "Seated spectators and splendidly clothed ladies and gentlemen on horseback watch May Day festivities in this tapestry. In the middle distance, archers prepare to shoot at a bush and bird placed atop a maypole, while more spectators congregate in the receding landscape. A border of rolled acanthus leaves and flower garlands frames the scene. This scene is one of twelve so-called Months of Lucas tapestries, each depicting activities that coincide with a month of the year. <br><br>The original “Months of Lucas” was a sixteenth-century Flemish tapestry set that was owned by the French monarchy and mistakenly attributed to Lucas van Leyden during the 1600s. To this day, they continue to be known as the “Months of Lucas.” This original set was burned in 1797 so their gold and silver metal threads could be used to replenish the depleted French coffers. <br><br>Beginning in the 1600s, the popular Months of Lucas were reproduced in several different versions under various masters at the Gobelins Manufactory in Paris, the famous royal production center for French tapestries since Louis XIV (1638–1715). The lower right hand corner of this tapestry bears the signature of Michel Audran (1701–1771), director of the Gobelins high-warp loom workshop from 1732–71, who produced this tapestry for a private patron in addition to the other royal commissions of the set.",
    "date": "1723–1774",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.133",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "creators": [
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    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Tapestry"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.133/1944.133_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 2841.9 x 454.3 cm (1118 7/8 x 178 7/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "France, 18th century, Period of Louis XV (1723-1774)"
    ],
    "accession": "1944.133"
}

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    "tec": "tapestry weave: linen warp, wool and silk wefts",
    "tombstone": "Month of May: Scene of May Day Festival, 1723–1774. Gobelins Manufactory (France, Paris, est. 1662), Michel Audran (French, 1701–1771). Tapestry weave: linen warp, wool and silk wefts; overall: 2841.9 x 454.3 cm (1118 7/8 x 178 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection, 1944.133",
    "collection": "Textiles",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Fenaille, Maurice, Fernand Calmettes, and Jules Guiffrey. État général des tapisseries de la Manufacture des Gobelins depuis son origine jusqu'a jours, 1600-1900. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, Hachette, 1903.",
            "url": "https://books.google.fr/books?id=7bNFAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr&source=gbs_ge_summary_r#v=onepage&q&f=false"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Ffoulke, Charles Mather, Sarah Cushing Ffoulke, Glenn Brown, and Ernest Verlant. The Ffoulke Collection of Tapestries. New York: Priv. Print, 1913.",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/ffoulkecollectio00ffou/page/344"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Hunter, George Leland. \"The Loan Exhibition of Tapestries.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 5, no. 8/9 (1918): 63-87. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136215",
            "page_number": "65",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136215"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Hunter, George Leland. “The Loan Exhibition of Tapestries.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>(October-November, 1918), 63-66",
            "page_number": "63-66"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Hunter, George Leland. <em>Loan Exhibition of Tapestries</em>. Cleveland Museum of Art<em>. </em>October 5th-December 1st 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.",
            "page_number": "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": "Hunter, George Leland. The Practical Book of Tapestries. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott company, 1925.",
            "page_number": "120"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Heinrich, Göbel,[Editor]. <em>Wandteppiche (II. Teil, Band 1): Die romanischen Länder: Die Wandteppiche und ihre Manufakturen in Frankreich, Italien, Spanien und Portugal</em> [T<em>apestries (Part II, Volume 1): The Romanesque countries: Tapestries and their factories in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal</em>]. Leipzig: Klinkhardt &amp; Biermann, 1928.",
            "page_number": "143-45",
            "url": "https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/goebel1928bd2_1/0163/text_ocr"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Underhill, Gertrude. “Tapestries and Embroideries,” in <em>Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection</em>. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944."
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss collection : bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944</em>. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. Published as: Tapestry: Month of May",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 66; Reproduced: XXIII",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/Prentiss/page/n55"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Underhill, Gertrude. “Tapestries,” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>(June 1944), 102-103.",
            "page_number": "102",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141134"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Ward, Evelyn Svec. \"Four Seasons Tapestries from Gobelins.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 40, no. 6 (1953): 113-19.",
            "page_number": "113-119"
        },
        {
            "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. European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Museum, 1985.",
            "page_number": "344"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Wojciechowski, Jerzy. \"\"May\" and \"August\": Two Drawings by the Master of the Months of Lucas.\" <em>Master Drawings</em> 33, no. 4 (1995): 410-13.",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/1554242"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Standen, Edith Appleton and Janet Arnold. \"The Comte de Toulouse's 'Months of Lucas' Gobelins Tapestries: Sixteenth-Century Designs with Eighteenth-Century Additions,\" Metropolitan Museum Journal. (1996), 59-79.",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/1512972"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Mironneau, Paul. Musée national du Château de Pau. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2003."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Vittet, Jean, and Marc Walter. Les Gobelins au siècle des Lumières: un âge d'or de la manufacture royale. 2014."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Hunter, George Leland. \"The Cleveland Tapestry Exhibition.\" <em>The American Magazine of Art</em> 10, no. 4 (1919): 129-37.",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/23925160"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Crick-Kuntziger, Marthe, “L’énigme des ‘Mois de Lucas,’” <em>Actes du XIIe Congr</em>ès international d’Histoire de l’Art. Volume 2. Brussels, 1930. 497-505."
        }
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