Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009713Spring
About the Artwork
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.
Provenance
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
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean-Baptiste Pater (French, 1695–1736)
- Date
- c. 1720–36
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 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.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of Harry D. Kendrick
- Accession no.
- 1951.486
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