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There are many differences between this quickly worked sketch and the final painting as the artist sought to find the most harmonious combination of figures, landscape and colours. When Puvis de Chavannes started work on the composition, France was just emerging from a period of political and military turmoil but the picture offers instead an idyll of peace, harmony and plenty. The world the artist has conjured into being is a timeless dream realm, part biblical and part classical.
Title
Summer
Date
before 1873
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 43.2 x W 62.2 cm
Accession number
NG3422
Acquisition method
Bequeathed by Arthur Haythorne Studd, 1919
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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