Cleveland Museum of Art

Spring: Fishing Scene

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Date: designed c. 1535, woven mid- to late 1600s
Medium: Wool, silk, and gold filé: tapestry weave
Culture: France
Department: Textiles
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 130166

From the Cleveland Museum of Art record

In this springtime scene, two fishermen wade in a river, dragging a net suspended between two poles. A noble couple on a bridge gestures toward other fishermen, who occupy the other side of this scene in other extant examples of this tapestry with a larger picture plane. In the background, townspeople walk on bridges that lead to the gateway of a town with brick walls and portals. In the far distance, farmers till the soil to sow new seeds, another typical activity associated with spring. The trees on the hills are just beginning to sprout new buds. Spring was considered to be a season of courtship and romance; perhaps the gentleman on the bridge in the red cap is trying to catch the attention of the lady next to him.

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Credit line: Gift of Francis Ginn, Marian Ginn Jones, Barbara Ginn Griesinger, and Alexander Ginn in memory of Frank Hadley Ginn and Cornelia Root Ginn
Provenance: Balloch Castle, Scotland | January 27-Febuary 3, 1923: Henry Symons Sale: Anderson Galleries, New York, January 27-Febuary 3, 1923 | 1923-1952: Frank Hadley Ginn (1868-1938) and Cornelia Winifred Root Ginn (1877-1937), Cleveland, OH | 1952-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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18th-Century French Decorative Arts
These objects represent the luxury decorative traditions of 18th-century France, unified by their use of refined materials (tapestry weave, Savonnerie knotted pile, carved wood), classical themes (Ovid's Metamorphoses, S
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