Summer
Series TitleThe Seasons
Artist
Wenceslaus Hollar
(Bohemian, 1607 - 1677)
Date1644
MediumEtching
DimensionsOverall: 10 3/16 × 7 inches (25.88 × 17.78 cm)
Mat: 19 × 14 inches (48.26 × 35.56 cm)
Mat: 19 × 14 inches (48.26 × 35.56 cm)
Credit LineGift of Robert B. Fizzell
Object number57-115/40
Signed(pl.,l.l.c. and l.r.c. [number]):"W: Hollar inu: et fecit. Londini 1644.2"
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Exhibition HistoryArchitecture and Decorative Arts in Prints from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 13-April 10, 1983, no. 23b, as Summer, dated 1644.
Artists treated the subject of the four seasons in various ways, in this case by showing fashionable female costumes worn at different times of the year. So for example in Summer, the lady wears a veil to protect her face from the heat, but in Winter the sitter is wrapped in furs and wears a mask to protect her face from the cold. The costumes and the backgrounds are English, since the artist, though born in Eastern Europe, spent much of his career in England.
Robert B. Fizzell (1889-1978), Kansas City, MO, by December 14, 1957;
Given by Robert B. Fizzell to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1957.
Architecture and Decorative Arts in Prints from the Permanent Collection, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), p. 4, as Summer, 1644.
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