This selection of works illustrates the pleasures of a season celebrating the grape in all its forms.
€3,328
Attributed to François-Albert Stiemart (1680-1740), Allégorie de l’Automne (Allegory of Autumn), original oval canvas, 75.5 x 69 cm/29.7 x 27.2 in.
Paris, Drouot, April 3, 2019. Ader auction house. Cabinet Turquin.
Allegories of autumn draw their iconography from wine. The season might simply be evoked by the grape harvest and all the activities flowing from it, but it is more often illustrated by references to Bacchus. The common man quietly helps himself to a barrel as the god of wine is carried in triumph, accompanied by a gleeful procession of bacchantes,…
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