Spring

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Spring

Jean-Baptiste PaterLinkedCulture matchlcp-ce2af37e67fa

Date
c. 1720–36
Medium
oil on canvas
Culture
France, 18th century
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
128877

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Spring and Summer are two scenes from a four-season series. These landscapes were originally a part of a screen or a decorative panel, indicated by their floral borders and oval shape. The setting of Spring is believed to be the grounds of Montmorency, the country estate of Pierre Crozat (1665–1740), a wealthy financier and art collector in early eighteenth-century Paris. Summer counters Spring 's aristocratic leisure by depicting rural labor. Befitting the work's decorative origins, however, Pater's scene belongs to the tradition of the timeless pastoral. More idyllic than a statement about class differences, the reapers peacefully gather sheaves of wheat as shepherds rest with their flocks in the foreground.

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Credit line
Gift of Harry D. Kendrick
Provenance
1736-1741: Probably Victor-Amédée, prince de Carignan [1690-1741], Paris, France | 1741-1743: Held in trust by the Estate of the prince de Carignan | Until 1910: Mantacheff collection, St. Petersburg, sold to Wildenstein & Co | Probably 1910-1928: (Wildenstein & Co., Paris, France, sold to Henry G. Dalton) | Probably c. 1928-1939: Henry G. Dalton [1862-1939], Cleveland, OH, by descent to his nephew, Harry D. Kendrick | Probably 1939-1951: Harry D. Kendrick [1894-1958], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1951-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

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