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Title: August from a set of The Months of Lucas
Designer:
Master of the Months of Lucas (Netherlandish, active about 1535)
Designer:
Additions and alterations probably by Joseph Yvart (1649–1728) , about 1721
Designer:
and Charles Chastelain (1672–1755) , about 1721
Designer:
and perhaps by Louis de Boulogne the Younger (1654–1733) , about 1731
Designer:
Borders by Pierre Josse Perrot (active 1724–35)
Maker:
Woven under the direction of Michel Audran (French, 1701–1771 Paris)
Manufactory:
Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins (French, established 1662)
Patron:
Commissioned for Comte de Toulouse (1678–1737)
Date: designed ca. 1535, woven 1732–37
Culture: French, Paris
Medium: Wool, silk (20-21 warps per inch, 8-9 per cm.)
Dimensions: 11 ft. 10 in. × 15 ft. 5 in. (360.7 × 469.9 cm)
Classification: Textiles-Tapestries
Credit Line: Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1944
Accession Number: 44.60.6
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