Tapestry, month of November, zodiac sign Sagittarius from the series "Les mois Lucas"
Sowing of seeds in the month of November. A woman under a leafless tree takes the grain from a sack and places it in the apron of a farm labourer. On the left is the sower sowing the grain. On the right, a woman carries milk next to a seated man. In the background, on the same side, a cart returning to the farm. The motif corresponds to the cardboard model both in terms of the individual scenes, the backgrounds filled with architecture and the colours. The cartouche in the lower border contains the zodiac sign Sagittarius.
Despite obvious restoration work, the former U-shaped incision in the lower third on the left for mounting above a wallpaper door at the Dresden location remains visible.
450 x 350 cm (with gallon) according to the inventory of the Hofbettmeisterey 1769: height 4.295, width not recorded
Inventar Hofbettmeisterey 1769
Inventarverzeichnis zum Auseinandersetzungsvertrag 1924 (Freistaat Sachsen, Haus Wettin)
Erich Haenel, Führer durch das ehemalige Schloss und die Ausstellung „August der Starke und seine Zeit“, Dresden 1933, S. 10, 49
Winterpalais St. Pertersburg, Raum 201, 1974 Birioukova; Externer Link
Sächsisches Staatsministerium der Finanzen
Carolaplatz 1
01097 Dresden
Germany