2-862-557 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Winter, from The Seasons, Paris, 1700/20. Saturn (god of agriculture and time) and Juventas (cupbearer to the gods on Mount Olympus) floating on a cloud. Below are winter vegetables, a gun, nets and game from a hunt. In the background is the Palais du Louvre in Paris. Woven at the workshop of Etienne Le Blond and Jean de La Croix at the Manufacture Royale des Gobelins, after a design by Charles Le Brun.