January from the Twelve Months Panels
Artist
Karl Theodore Francis Bitter
(Austrian/American, 1867-1915)
Date1892-93
MediumMarble
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN11657.1
Since medieval times, January has been illustrated with scenes of hunting and of the cutting and transportation of wood. At far left, a boy sounds a hunting horn while a group of children at center carry off a felled tree. Winter is evoked by the children’s mittens and muffs and their footprints in the snow. At far right, two boys interact with a clock. The pose of the boy indicating the time recalls a figure from one of the best-known illustrations of the months to have survived from antiquity, the <i>Chronograph of 354</i>.
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On viewLocation
- Museum of Art, Gallery 21
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