The Four Seasons

1780s

Alexandre Briceau after Jean-Baptiste Hüet, I

Associated Names
Alexandre Briceau

Artist, French, active 1770 - after 1788

Jean-Baptiste Hüet

Artist After, French, 1745 - 1811

This is a painting featuring cherubic figures engaged in various activities across four panels. The scenes include handling grain, adorning a goat, gathering around a fire, and stomping on grapes in a barrel. The style is reminiscent of Jean-Honoré Fragonard, with a soft color palette and blue backgrounds setting off each scene.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint printed in brown and blue with hand coloring on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ivan E. and Winifred Phillips

  • Dimensions

    plate: 34 x 30.5 cm (13 3/8 x 12 in.)
    sheet: 37.8 x 33.2 cm (14 7/8 x 13 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2004.83.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    IFF (1700), undescribed

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Christopher Mendez, London); purchased 2004 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2021

  • Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

1930

  • Inventaire du Fonds Français, Graveurs du XIIIe siècle. Paris, 1930 - 1977.

2021

  • Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 133, fig. 3.

Inscriptions

upper right in image: A.B. f / Huet del

Wikidata ID

Q76335520

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