Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "136291",
    "label": "Time (from Chateau de Chaumont set)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "136291",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Time (from Chateau de Chaumont set)",
    "description": "Pierre Sala, who likely commissioned the set, is portrayed as the richly attired central figure offering a bouquet, a symbol of knowledge, to Éléonore, his daughter. Éléonore is pregnant, revealed by her upturned skirt and the persimmon in her husband Hector’s hand. Hector’s mother, Marguerite, in dark attire, will wed the widowed Sala in 1519. They appear in front of the royal chateau of Blois. The figures at the right convey Sala’s advice to his children. Time (the old man with the staff) with Clio, the Muse of History, standing on his shoulders, is being attacked by a Herculean youth wielding a stick. With this allegory, Sala is explaining that youth is ignorant of the complexities of life and time. The small unicorn at the far right represents the soul. The verse in Old French at the top refers to changing time: <em>One sees Time adorned with green foliage, Sometimes as pleasant as an angel, Then suddenly change and become quite strange. Never does Time persist in one state.</em>",
    "date": "1512–15",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.176.3",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60756419"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Tapestry"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.176.3/1960.176.3_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.176.3/1960.176.3_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.176.3/1960.176.3_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 326.6 x 434.1 cm (128 9/16 x 170 7/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "France, Lyon(?), early 16th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1960.176.3"
}

{
    "tec": "silk and wool; tapestry weave",
    "tombstone": "Time (from Chateau de Chaumont set), 1512–15. France, Lyon(?), early 16th century. Silk and wool; tapestry weave; overall: 326.6 x 434.1 cm (128 9/16 x 170 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1960.176.3",
    "collection": "Textiles",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "French verse in Gothic letters translates as follows: \"One sees the weather adorned in green, Sometimes as pleasing as an angel; To suddenly change and be quite strange, The weather never stays the same.\"",
            "sortorder": 1
        }
    ],
    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
        "1960.178"
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Shepherd, Dorothy G. \"Three Tapestries from Chaumont.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 48, no. 7 (September 1961): 159–177",
            "page_number": "pp. 159-177",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25142461"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Saisselin, Remy G. \"Literary Background of the Chaumont Tapestries.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 48, no. 7 (September 1961).",
            "page_number": "pp. 178–181",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25142462"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Wixom, William D., and Leona E. Prasse. \"Traditions in the Chaumont Tapestries.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 48, no. 7 (September 1961): 182–190.",
            "page_number": "pp. 182–190",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25142463"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 75",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n99"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Wixom, William D. <em>Treasures from Medieval France.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 340",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/TreasuresMedievalFrance/page/n367"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 75",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n99"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 85",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n105"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Seaton, Douglass. <em>Ideas and Styles in the Western Musical Tradition</em>. Mountain View, Calif: Mayfield Pub. Co, 1991."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Mackie, Louise W. \"Woven Treasures.\" <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 52, no. 6 (November/December 2012): 12.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 12",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2012-06/page/n11/mode/2up"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. <em>The Middle Ages in 50 Objects</em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 154–157; Reproduced: p. 155"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Vignon, Charlotte, and Ian Wardropper. <em>Duveen Brothers and the Market for Decorative Arts, 1880-1940</em>. New York: The Frick Collection in association with D Giles Limited, London, 2019.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced:  pp. 218, fig. 78 - 219"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.176.3",
    "creditline": "Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund",
    "galleryDonorText": "The Honey and Leighton Rosenthal Family Gallery",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:57:27.146000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.176.3/1960.176.3_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 136291,
    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "Textiles",
    "med": "silk and wool; tapestry weave",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

{
    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.176.3/1960.176.3_web.jpg",
    "mediaId": "b42838ef707c4a5f"
}