[Sidenote:
_Wool and Silk._
H. 9 _ft._ 4 _in._
W. 6 _ft._ 8 _in._
]
DECEMBER FROM THE "MONTHS" OF LUCAS: _A nobleman greets a peasant woman
and her child, while a man and woman carrying a baby wait for him. In
the background a castle and people skating on the ice. The piece is
incomplete._
[Sidenote: Another example in the Vienna Collection, No. 109.]
This tapestry is from the same set as the preceding, but woven almost a
century earlier, and it is interesting to contrast the changes that the
change in taste has made in the feeling of the rendition and the color
key. During the XVIIIth century the cartoon was refined with slight
changes. The hand of the old man, for example, was modified to hold a
fruit for the child. The piece probably is from the third or fourth
weaving. If so, it was done on the horizontal looms in the atelier of
Lefébvre, outside of the official work of the Gobelins.[30]
[Sidenote: Lent by _Wildenstein & Company_.]
This is one of the few really successful renditions of a snow scene in
tapestry.
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