Three Months

Franz Brun

National Gallery of Art

This is a drawing of three horizontal panels depicting rural and agricultural scenes with intricate details. The top strip visualizes activities involving barrels, with figures engaged in carrying and filling barrels, and horses pulling carts of produce. The central strip illustrates various crafting and farming actions, like flax processing and woodworking, with a hearth visible in the background and laborers engrossed in their tasks. The lowest strip shows domestic and outdoor farming activities, possibly butchery and food preparation, with figures engaging with livestock and tools. Mythic or celestial imagery is interspersed in each scene, such as figures on clouds. Finely detailed borders include German text.