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Spring

Spring

c. 1720–36
(French, 1695–1736)
Framed: 76.5 x 66 x 9 cm (30 1/8 x 26 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 65 x 53.7 cm (25 9/16 x 21 1/8 in.)

Description

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.
  • 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
  • Carignan. Catalogue des tableaux du cabinet de feu S.A.S. Monseigneur le prince de Carignan. Paris: De Poilly, 1742.
    Catalogue des tableaux du Cabinet de Feu S.A.S., Monseigneur Le Prince de Carignan. Paris: Chez de Poilly, 1743.
    Ingersoll-Smouse, Florence. Pater. Paris: Les Beaux-arts, édition d'études et de documents, 1928. p. 84, nos. 578 and 579, figs. 154 and 155
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Reproduced: p. 111; Mentioned: p. 110-115
    Coe, Nancy. The History of the Collecting of European Paintings and Drawings in the City of Cleveland. 1955. II, 46, nos. 6 and 7
    Inna Nemilova, "Watteau's Drawing The Alle and Pater's Spring," Soobscenija Gos, XL (1975). 20-22
    Roland Michel, Marianne. Lajoüe et l'art rocaille. Neuilly-sur-Seine: Arthena, 1984. pp. 42, 210, fig. 127
    Grasselli, Margaret Morgan, Pierre Rosenberg, Nicole Parmantier, and Antoine Watteau. Watteau, 1684-1721. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1984. p. 146
    Wintermute, Alan, and Michael Kitson. Claude to Corot: The Development of Landscape Painting in France. New York: Colnaghi, 1990.
    Cambó, Francesc. Colección Cambó: Museo del Prado, 9 octubre-31 diciembre, 1990. [Madrid]: Ministerio de Cultura, 1990. p. 474
    Ziskin, Rochelle. Sheltering Art: Collecting and Social Identity in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012.
  • Claude to Corot: The Development of Landscape Painting in France, Colnaghi Gallery, New York, NY (November 1-December 15, 1990).
  • {{cite web|title=Spring|url=false|author=Jean-Baptiste Pater|year=c. 1720–36|access-date=28 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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