This painting is a smaller version of a mural on the same subject painted for the hôtel de ville in paris, which has a companion mural titled winter. A writer at the time described summer as "filled with joy, happiness, rest, and the apotheosis of life. " georges seurat, paul gauguin, and pablo picasso were among the many modernists influenced by puvis de chavannes’s dreamlike themes and anti-naturalistic style of simplified, flattened forms. Object Type: painting. Date: 1891. Place of creation: France, 19th century. 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.). Medium: oil on fabric. Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art. Clevelandart 1916.1056
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