The Month of July/The Sign of Leo, from The Grotesque Months

Textiles

c. 1726

After a design by Claude III Audran (1658–1734), 1708–09
Woven at the Manufacture Royale des Gobelins
France, Paris

This narrow panel and its companion belong to a suite known as The Grotesque Months, which depicts the 12 months of the year and their associated zodiac signs. A Roman deity, centrally positioned within a pergola, personifies each month. July, with the sign of Leo—a lion—appears in a grisaille cartouche near the top of this tapestry. The bearded Jupiter sits on a great eagle amid storm clouds, and the fleece and head of Amalthea, the goat that suckled the infant god, hangs from the top of the pergola. Other attributes associated with Jupiter appear above and below the god.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artists: Claude III Audran (Designer) , Manufacture Royale des Gobelins (Producer) , Gobelins Factory
Title: The Month of July/The Sign of Leo, from The Grotesque Months
Places: Paris (Object made in), France (Object made in)
Date: Made 1716-1736
Medium: Wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave
Dimensions: 66.5 × 293.6 cm (26 1/8 × 115 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Bessie Bennett Endowment
Reference Number: 1951.261
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Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collection of The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1976),pl. 313 b.
Bremer-David 2002, pp. 29-34, n. 19.
Koenraad Brosens, ed., Christa C. Mayer Thurman, gen. ed., European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat., [exhibition: “The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago”] (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2008) 257-261, cat. 42B.

Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Works of Eighteenth Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 24–Mar. 28, 1976.
Art Institute of Chicago, Tapestries from the Permanent Collection, June 30–Sept. 30, 1979.
Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Hall, The Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestry, Nov. 1, 2008–Jan. 4, 2009.

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