A Louis Xiv Allegorical Tapestry of Summer

Woven in metal threads, silks and wool, depicting Summer from the series The Seasons of Lucas, with a man shearing wheat in a wheat field to the centre, to the left with a woman bundling the wheat and being offered a jug of wine by a man and an apple by a woman, to the right with a further man shearing wheat and with a group of people counting money, the central background with peasants gathering wheat, to the right with a chariot crossing over a bridge, and to the left with a figure on horseback drawing a chariot with figures, within a fruited floral border and a later purple outer slip, slightly reduced in height, losses

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