Description
Giuseppe Arcimboldo – The Summer
| Year of creation: | 1573 |
| Original size: | 76 x 64 cm |
| Painting style: | Mannerism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | The Louvre, Paris |
The picture Summer is completely depicted from different types of fruits and vegetables. A close look reveals the author’s signature on the portrait’s collar, and the year of the painting’s creation is imprinted on the shoulder: 1573.
The Four Seasons
This painting belongs to a cycle. All four are available here:
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo – Summer
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo – Spring
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo – Autumn
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo – Winter
Hung as a matched group of four, the sizes 30 × 40, 40 × 50, 50 × 60, 64 × 76, 70 × 80 cm work — every one of the four is available in them.
More on both cycles as a wall group: Arcimboldo’s Four Seasons and Four Elements as a wall group
Fruit and vegetables are graded here by ripeness: a peach for the cheek, an ear of wheat for the brow, a pea pod for the mouth, an artichoke at the chest. The painter’s signature lies in the woven collar and the year of making is pressed into the shoulder. From a distance a nearly smiling profile remains. The original hangs in the Louvre in Paris.
Technique: a hand-painted oil painting reproduction on canvas, made to order in the size you choose.
