The Months: November
Etienne Delaune French
Not on view
Engraving, part of a series of twelve oval prints with allegorical representations of the months with the seasonal labors inherited from the Middle Ages. The activities illustrated in the series do not seem to have a moral sense, and depict relatively simple scenes with characters dressed in simple garbs, executing their labors in rustic landscapes. This representation is dominated by Sagittarius, the astrological attribute of November. In the first plane, a man throws a stick towards a tree, in an attempt to make the acorns fall and feed the pigs that surround him. In the background, a on the right, a woman is weaving hemp. This composition is consistent with traditional representations of November.
