Spring, from The Four Seasons

Art Institute of Chicago

Spring, from The Four Seasons

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Date
1601
Medium
Engraving on cream laid paper
Culture
Netherlands
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
80174

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Jan Saenredam’s Four Seasons engravings after his teacher Hendrick Goltzius’s drawings offer lush depictions of flora and fauna through changing times of year. The prints simultaneously follow a young girl and boy’s journey into adulthood. The discovery of the bird’s nest of Spring passes seamlessly into the harvesting of Summer ’s ripe crops. Autumn ’s root vegetables and fruits attract the interest of a full-grown goat and a pig, while the adults and their loyal hound skate the Winter away on a frozen river, oblivious of the sheep beset by a wolf in the background, or any of the season’s dangers.

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Gift of Langdon Pearse

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