Il ballo delle quattro stagioni

Lorrain, Claude (1604-1682)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1662
Height:
28.0 cm  (11 in.)
Width:
35.0 cm  (13 3/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on copper
School:
Neoclassical

Additional titles

The dance of the seasons

Description

An old, winged man, most probably Chronos, sitting on a stone playing a stylized harp while Apollo and the Four Seasons are performing a dance, holding each others hands.

Iconclass

23A1
Father Time, man with wings and scythe
92B3731
Apollo Musagetes
23E
Seasons of the year represented by scenes showing human activities, usually in a landscape

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Harp [3285]

Image URLs

image link 1
Online catalogue Kunsthaus Zürich: search Claude Lorrain to find image and data
image link 2
WikiArt
image link 3
Kunsthaus Zürich image

Bibliographic references

Leppel, Guillaume comte de. Oeuvre de Claude Gelee dit le Lorrain (Dresden: Gärtner, 1806) 58-60.

Roethlisberger, Marcel. "Claude Lorrain's Dance of the Seasons", Pantheon 45 (1987) 103-106.

Roethlisberger, Marcel. "The dimension of time in the art of Claude Lorrain", Artibus et Historiae 10/20 (1989) 73-92.

RIdIM record id

5484