Cleveland Museum of Art
Summer
Pierre Puvis de ChavannesLinkedCulture matchlcp-849410b8a569
- Date
- 1891
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 95287
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This painting is a smaller version of a mural on the same subject painted for the Hôtel de Ville in Paris, which has a companion mural titled Winter . A writer at the time described Summer as "filled with joy, happiness, rest, and the apotheosis of life." Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, and Pablo Picasso were among the many modernists influenced by Puvis de Chavannes’s dreamlike themes and anti-naturalistic style of simplified, flattened forms. Puvis de Chavannes was considered one of the foremost artists in France in the second half of the 1800, and was particularly admired for his murals. This painting is a version of a mural he painted in 1889, which was particularly difficult because the wall had a door in the middle.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade
- Provenance
- 1891-1892: Bought from the artist by Durand-Ruel, Paris (stock number 1882), 29 October 1891. | 1892: Sold to Durand-Ruel, New York (stock number 864), 5 January 1892. | 1892: (Durand-Ruel, New York, NY, January 5, 1892, no. 864.) | 1892: (Durand-Ruel, New York, NY, November 16, 1892 sold to Jeptha H. Wade) | 1892-1916: Jeptha H. Wade [1811-1980] Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art,1916 | 1916-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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