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View at the museum ↗Spring, from The Four Seasons
Jan Saenredam1601
- Attribution
- Jan Saenredam Dutch, 1565-1607
- Medium
- Engraving on cream laid paper
- Physical dimensions
- Image: 21 × 15.8 cm (8 5/16 × 6 1/4 in.); Sheet: 22.5 × 16.5 cm (8 7/8 × 6 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Langdon Pearse
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Source rights statement: Public domain
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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.
Description: Art Institute of Chicago · CC BY 4.0