Copy after Arcimboldo's Summer
Artistfollower of
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
(Italian, 1526 - 1593)
Datelate sixteenth or seventeenth century
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsImage: 29 3/8 x 38 in. (74.6 x 96.5 cm)
Frame: 44 1/8 × 35 1/2 × 2 1/4 in. (112.1 × 90.2 × 5.7 cm)
Frame: 44 1/8 × 35 1/2 × 2 1/4 in. (112.1 × 90.2 × 5.7 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineMuseum purchase, 1954
Object numberSN673
Arcimboldo is famous for his sets of bizarre composite heads combining plants, animals, and other objects. These paintings are copies after two of Arcimboldo’s Four Seasons. Woven into the wheat-sheaf collar of Summer is the name Morales. Morales is probably the name of the works’ owner. In other sets of the Seasons, the patron’s heraldic devices, names, or initials can be found in the same location. Morales is a Spanish name— the king of Spain owned a set of Seasons from which these must have been copied.
On View
On viewLocation
- Museum of Art, Gallery 13, Wall West
Girolamo Romanino
