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The image is viewed from a slightly elevated perspective. The horizon is high in the image, showing a landscape on the right with mountains and a vineyard. On the left, there are pillars and trees with detailed foliage. The style features controlled brushstrokes emphasizing textures and forms. The color palette includes natural greens and browns in the landscape, while figures wear reds, blues, and oranges. In the sky, mythological figures are painted with clouds below them. The image combines classical architecture, nature, and human activity in a detailed and colorful composition.
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The image is viewed from a slightly elevated perspective. The horizon is high in the image, showing a landscape on the right with mountains and a vineyard. On the left, there are pillars and trees with detailed foliage. The style features controlled brushstrokes emphasizing textures and forms. The color palette includes natural greens and browns in the landscape, while figures wear reds, blues, and oranges. In the sky, mythological figures are painted with clouds below them. The image combines classical architecture, nature, and human activity in a detailed and colorful composition.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Autumn

Joseph Sebastian Klauber, Johann Baptist Klauber, after Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner

Date
mid 18th century
Medium
etching and engraving with extensive hand-coloring on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 48.5 x 67.3 cm (19 1/8 x 26 1/2 in.) plate: 47.3 x 65.8 cm (18 5/8 x 25 7/8 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2011.125.3
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Time span
1701 to 1725
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Portfolio and series

Series
The Four Seasons

Subjects and terms

  • Seasons
  • Allegory
Provenance

(Kunsthandlung Bessler, Augsburg [according to label on back of frame]). Private collection, Germany. (sale 376, Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 14 May 2011, lot 3); (C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf); purchased 2011 by NGA.

Inscription

across top in plate: Colligit in AUTUMNO racemos vindemiae. Mich. 7.v.1.; lower left in plate [in grass]: I.W. Baumgartner del.; lower left in plate: C.P.S.C.M.; bottom margin in plate: exiit primo manè conducere operarios in viream suam. Matth. 20.v.1.; lower right in plate: Klauber Cath. sc. et exc. Aug. Vind.

NGA object ID 156899. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.