Spring, from The Four Seasons

Prints and Drawings

1601

Jan Saenredam
Dutch, 1565-1607

Jan Saenredam’s Four Seasons engravings after his teacher Hendrick Goltzius’s drawings offer lush depictions of flora and fauna through changing times of year. The prints simultaneously follow a young girl and boy’s journey into adulthood. The discovery of the bird’s nest of Spring passes seamlessly into the harvesting of Summer’s ripe crops. Autumn’s root vegetables and fruits attract the interest of a full-grown goat and a pig, while the adults and their loyal hound skate the Winter away on a frozen river, oblivious of the sheep beset by a wolf in the background, or any of the season’s dangers.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jan Saenredam
Title: Spring, from The Four Seasons
Place: Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1601
Medium: Engraving on cream laid paper
Dimensions: Image: 21 × 15.8 cm (8 5/16 × 6 1/4 in.); Sheet: 22.5 × 16.5 cm (8 7/8 × 6 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Langdon Pearse
Reference Number: 1954.79
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Hollstein 89 I/IV

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