Summer - Item #497

 

5 Inches Diameter

Also known as Youth, this piece is part of the Four Seasons 5 inch diameter set. Eugène Plon described the scene as follows: "A young woman, on her knees, is binding wheat-sheaves; another, still holding her sickle, is embraced by a young man who offers her fruit."

 

Artist: Bertel Thorvaldsen

Museum: Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen

Time Period: Neoclassical, 1836

 

Sources:

"Youth or Summer A639." Bertel Thorvaldsen's Art and Collections, https://kataloget.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/en/A639.

"Youth or Summer A643." Bertel Thorvaldsen's Art and Collections, https://kataloget.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/en/A643.

Plon, Eugène. Thorvaldsen: His Life and Works. Boston, 1873. Pp. 301. Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/thorvaldsenhisl00thorgoog.