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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
image of Ceres (Summer)
Antoine Watteau (artist)
French, 1684 - 1721
Ceres (Summer), 1715/1716
oil on canvas
overall (oval): 141.6 x 115.7 cm (55 3/4 x 45 9/16 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1961.9.50
From the Tour: 18th-Century France — The Rococo and Watteau
Object 1 of 10

Exhibition History

1909
National Loan Exhibition in Aid of National Gallery Funds, Grafton Galleries, London, 1909-1910, no. 95.
1935
Exposition de L'art français au XVIIIe siècle, Palais de Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 1935, no. 262.
1936
Watteau and His Contemporaries, Wildenstein & Co., London, 1936, no. 27.
1948
French Painting of the Eighteenth Century, Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1948, no. 45.
1961
Masterpieces: A Memorial Exhibition for Adele R. Levy, Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1961, no. 20.
1984
Watteau 1684-1721, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, West Germany, 1984-1985, no. 35.

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