Designs for Gobelins Tapestry, April (Les Mois Grotesques par Bandes)
date: label: Date
content: 1709–10
name: label: Artist
content: Claude Audran III, French, 1658 - 1734
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Three vertical panels depicting the months of April, June and October, in reverse from the engraved designs for tapestries."April" shows the bull in a wreath medallion at top, with Venus and Cupid in a frame at the center of the drawing. Below the frame is a swan between billing pairs of doves, all resting on a pedestal supported by dolphins. In "June", Cancer is omitted. Mercury is placed in the central framing structure surmounted by a cock. A ram is below. "October" shows Scorpio in a wreath at top, Minerva in the central frame, and Arachne(?) making a tapestry below.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1911-28-1-1
objectType: label: Type
content: textile designs
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Red chalk, pen and brown ink on cream laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 38.7 x 10.2cm (15 1/4 x 4in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Mat: 55.9 × 71.1 cm (22 × 28 in.)