Giuseppe Arcimboldo · 1573
Autumn
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A surly profile head built from autumn produce — apples and pears for the face, a pomegranate chin, a mushroom ear, grapes for hair and a pumpkin cap — rising from a broken wine vat bound with willow shoots. Louvre.
Up to 16 × 19.7 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of Autumn
Autumn belongs to Arcimboldo's Seasons set, offered to Maximilian II in 1569 together with The Four Elements. The Louvre has the full set of copies the painter made to send to Augustus of Saxony; these have a floral frame not used in the originals.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, also spelled Arcimboldi, was an Italian Mannerist painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books.
All Giuseppe Arcimboldo prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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