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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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Details
- Maker
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, 1824–1898)
- Date
- 1891
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- 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.)
- Place of origin
- France
- Held by
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · On view · 222 Impressionism & Post-Impressionism
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade
Image: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0
More by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the MusesPierre Puvis de Chavannes · 1884–89
The Fisherman's FamilyPierre Puvis de Chavannes · 1887
Two Flying Figures with a Lyre (Study for The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses)Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · c. 1883
Compositional study for The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses
Shown in
- Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of ArtOct 21, 2007 – Jan 13, 2008
- 35th Anniversary ExhibitionJun 20, 1951 – Sep 30, 1951
- 19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. LoansJun 22, 1943 – Sep 1, 1943
- French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private CollectionsJan 6, 1942 – Feb 15, 1942
- The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes ExpositionJun 26, 1936 – Oct 4, 1936
