Savonnerie Panel: Autumn (c. 1717): Art, History and Details

Savonnerie Panel: Autumn (c. 1717) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Royal Savonnerie Manufactory, Chaillot Workshops (French, est. 1627).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Courtiers and aristocrats anxious to model their lifestyles on the king also commissioned works from the same state manufactories that produced tapestries, carpets, and upholstery for the French monarchy. Established in the early 1600s, the Savonnerie factory provided both domestic furnishings for the king’s palaces and diplomatic gifts for foreign heads of state. The double coat of arms in this tapestry suggests that it was made for a count and countess who married in 1717. One of a group of four tapestries depicting the seasons, this work depicts the abundant harvest of fall. The Cleveland Museum of Art rotates this tapestry with another from this group. The other two tapestries in the suite can be seen at the Toledo Museum of Art.

Object facts

• Title: Savonnerie Panel: Autumn
• Date: c. 1717
• Creator attribution: Royal Savonnerie Manufactory, Chaillot Workshops (French, est. 1627)
• Culture: France
• Type: Tapestry
• Technique: knotted pile, silk and wool
• Dimensions: Overall: 297.2 x 218.5 cm (117 x 86 in.)
• Collection: Textiles
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1946.247

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Underhill, Gertrude. "A Savonnerie Panel: Autumn." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 34, no. 1 (January 1947): 7-8, 13.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
• Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.

View the collection record

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