The Four Seasons: Summer
Medium
engraving
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
The Charlotte Ekker and Charlotte Van der Veer Memorial Fund
Accession Number
1995.16
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
male
About this artwork
By the mid-16th century printmaking and printselling were big business in Europe. One of the most important firms, in Antwerp, was Hieronymus Cock's Aux quartre Vents (at the Sign of the Four Winds), so named because its goal was to disseminate prints to all four corners of the earth. Breugel collaborated with Cock by supplying drawings that were transformed into prints by professional engravers. In 1565 Bruegel executed a group of paintings of the months of the year based on the tradition of la...