The Four Seasons – Summer
1860
This tall, decorative panel depicts an allegory of Summer, featuring a young woman leaning against a stone wall with a sheaf of wheat in her lap. Dressed in a white blouse with a red scarf and a flowing blue skirt, she looks out calmly under a vast, pale blue sky while a bounty of peaches and a sliced watermelon sits at her feet. You might notice the signature 'Ingres' at the bottom right; this is actually a young Paul Cézanne paying homage to his idol, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, long before he developed the blocky, colorful style that made him a Post-Impressionist legend.
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