September

Villagers are engaged in seasonal labor, with one man perched high in a tree picking fruit while others on the ground gather the harvest into baskets and a wheelbarrow. The setting features thatched-roof cottages and a prominent ladder leaning against the central tree, with a fortified manor house visible in the background landscape. The scene is rendered with fine cross-hatching to define the textures of the foliage, wood, and sky.

This work belongs to the 'Labors of the Months' tradition, which illustrates the Renaissance philosophical concept of the correspondence between the celestial order and terrestrial human activity. It reflects the idea of the 'Book of Nature,' where the divine arrangement of time is manifested through the predictable cycles of agriculture and the seasons.