print
- Museum number
- 2017,7063.1-4
- Title
- Series: The Four Seasons
- Description
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Four prints of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter from marble statues designed by Charles Le Brun in the gardens of Versailles: a young woman holding a basket of flowers, a woman holding a scythe and a sheaf of corn, a young Bacchus with a grape-vine wreath and a basket of grapes at his feet holding a goblet, an old bearded man with a flaming cauldron at his feet.
Etching
- Production date
- 1710 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 170 millimetres (each print)
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Width: 115 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- As Jennifer Montagu pointed out these are copied from prints after sculptures designed by Charles Le Brun in the gardens at Versailles: 'Spring' (Philippe Magnier); 'Summer' (Pierre Hutinot); 'Autumn' (Thomas Regnaudin) and 'Winter' (François Girardon). The most likely source for them are the Edme Jeaurat engravings issued in 1708 under the name of Bernard Picart, see Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes, 1973, XII, nos. 2-5.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2017
- Acquisition notes
- From an album purchased by Julia Korner from the descendants of John White Abbott
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2017,7063.1-4
