L'Ete from Les Saisons

 

Johannes Sadeler

  1550 - 1600 (biography)

16th century 

engraving after Jacopo Bassano 

7 13/16 x 11 1/8" paper size 

I S Sculp engraved in plate in lower right 

unknown 

Bassan Pinx, lower right corner 

British Museum accession no. 1936,1214.6 

antique 

published in Les Saison 

 

18143 

$600.00 

"L'Ete" (Summer) features an agricultural family at work on their warm-weather tasks: sheering sheep, threshing and sheaving wheat, and hauling water. In the lower right, women and children take a break in their chores to eat a midday meal. This woodengraving, part of a series of four allegorical works pertaining to the seasons. Two were executed by Johannes "Jan" Sadeler, and two by Raphael Sadeler.