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Drawing, Designs for Gobelins Tapestry, April (Les Mois Grotesques par Bandes), 1709–10 (CH 18169723)

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Three vertical panels depicting the months of April, June and October, in reverse from the engraved designs for tapestries."April" shows the bull in a wreath medallion at top, with Venus and Cupid in a frame at the center of the drawing. Below the frame is a swan between billing pairs of doves, all resting on a pedestal supported by dolphins. In "June", Cancer is omitted. Mercury is placed in the central framing structure surmounted by a cock. A ram is below. "October" shows Scorpio in a wreath at top, Minerva in the central frame, and Arachne(?) making a tapestry below.

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1709
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Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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