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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

1928Dimier, Louis. Les peintres français du XVIIIe siècle. Histoire des vies et catalogue des oeuvres. 2 vols. Paris and Brussels, 1928-1930: 1(1928):31, no. 26.
1956Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Colllection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1951-56. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida and Fern Rusk Shapley. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1956: 204, no. 81, repro.
1959Cooke, Hereward Lester. French Paintings of the 16th-18th Centuries in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1959 (Booklet Number Four in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 24, color repro.
1959Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 348, repro.
1960The National Gallery of Art and Its Collections. Foreword by Perry B. Cott and notes by Otto Stelzer. National Gallery of Art, Washington (undated, 1960s): 26.
1961Seymour, Charles. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 175, repro. pl. 166
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 316, repro.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 139
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:300, color repro.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 126, repro.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 374, repro.
1977Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 297-300, Fig. 266, color repro, as Allegory of Summer (Ceres).
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 328, no. 436, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 435, repro.

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