Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
September 1777
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 25r
Notes:
Du Simitière's description is confusing. Cornelis Bloemaert (1603-1692), a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver, is not known to have made prints of the seasons. His father Abraham Bloemaert (1566-1651) did execute such a series, but they were not oval. Du Simitière may have had two of the four plates representing the seasons from the elder Bloemaert's Fondamenten der Teecken-Konst [Antwerp, c. 1670]; the folio volume included twenty-four numbered plates engraved by Nicolaus Visscher (1618-1679) (including the title), followed by seven additional plates depicting fire, air, water (numbered 1-3) and spring, summer, autumn, and winter (numbered 1-4); "Ver," or Spring, is pictured here.
