The Four Seasons: Spring: Putti with Garlands of Flowers (after Edmé Bouchardon)
French School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1800 - 1958
Materials
Oil on canvas (oval)
Measurements
1143 x 959 mm (45 x 37 ¾ in)
Place of origin
France
Order this imageCollection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 207775
Summary
Oil painting (en camaїeu/cirage) on canvas (oval), The Four Seasons: Spring: Putti with Garlands of Flowers (after Edmé Bouchardon). French School 19th-20th century. One of a set of four. Represented by putti painted en camaieu. These half-heartedly illusionistic paintings are adaptations of the reliefs carved on the Fontaine de Grenelle in Paris by Jaques-Edme Bouchardon, from 1739. (see WIM/P/9,11-12) Spring represented by three full-length naked putti, the one on the left, is turned to the right and is kneeling on a cushion lifting up with his left hand a wreath of flowers to place on the head of the centre putto, his right arm rests on the centre putto’s shoulder, the centre putto is seated, legs akimbo, he is placing, with both his hands, a wreath of flowers on the head of the putto on the left. The putto on the right has his back to the spectator, is turned to the right, his left leg on the ground the his right raised to climb a tree on the right. Grasses in the foreground and a tree and flowers in the background.
Provenance
Bought by Elsie Kipling, Mrs George Bambridge (1896 - 1976) in 1958 and by whom bequeathed to the National Trust together with Wimpole Hall, all its contents and an estate of 3,000 acres
Credit line
Wimpole Hall, The Bambridge Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
French School, artist after Edmé Bouchardon (Chaumont 1698 - Paris 1762), sculptor