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Follow the curve of the riverbank from the bathers at lower left to the reclining figure and the women among the trees.
This painting is a smaller version of a mural Puvis made for the Hôtel de Ville in Paris, which has a companion mural of Winter. Bathers rest and wash by a calm river while men fish from a boat behind them. The Cleveland Museum of Art notes that the wall for the mural had a door in the middle, which made the design difficult.
oil on fabric · Framed: 189.5 x 270.5 x 14.6 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · Symbolism
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- Museum title
- Summer
- Artist
- 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.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.