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Summer
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes1891
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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 <em>Winter</em>. A writer at the time described <em>Summer</em> 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.
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- Title: Summer
- Creator: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, 1824–1898)
- Date Created: 1891
- Physical Dimensions: Framed: 189.5 x 270.5 x 14.6 cm (74 5/8 x 106 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.); Unframed: 149.6 x 232.4 cm (58 7/8 x 91 1/2 in.)
- Provenance: Bought from the artist by Durand-Ruel, Paris (stock number 1882), 29 October 1891., Sold to Durand-Ruel, New York (stock number 864), 5 January 1892., (Durand-Ruel, New York, NY, January 5, 1892, no. 864.), (Durand-Ruel, New York, NY, November 16, 1892 sold to Jeptha H. Wade), Jeptha H. Wade [1811-1980] Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art,1916, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1056
- Medium: oil on fabric
- Inscriptions: Signed lower left: P. Puvis de Chavannes / 91
- Fun Fact: 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.
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade
- Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
- Accession Number: 1916.1056
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