# Spring, in 18th-century France

Jean-Baptiste Pater painted this in about 1720–36, aged about 20. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> 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.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- 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
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951.486
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Jean-Baptiste Pater](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/jean-baptiste-pater), French, 1695–1736

1 works in the collection.

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