Tapestry, month of March, zodiac sign Aries from the series "Les mois Lucas"
The month of March is dedicated to gardening and fishing. On the right is a woman sitting with a child, to her left a gardener raking a flower bed. Three men to the right in the centre ground are standing under a high roof on which two birds are perched. The cartouche in the lower border contains the sign of Aries. To the left, a group of men are busy fishing. A wide landscape with architecture opens up in the background.
According to the inventory of the Hofbettmeisterey 1769: 4.295 m x 3.398 m (7 cubits 14 inches high and 6 cubits wide). The height generally given for the series as 7 cubits 14 inches, i.e. 4.295 m in the written sources, is to be regarded as ideal. It can be assumed that there were differences of at least ± 10 cm.
Inventar Hofbettmeisterey 1769
Inventarverzeichnis zum Auseinandersetzungsvertrag 1924 (Freistaat Sachsen, Haus Wettin)
Erich Haenel, Führer durch das ehemalige Schloss und die Ausstellung „August der Starke und seine Zeit“, Dresden 1933, S. 10, 49
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