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A Allegorical Painting of the Spring Season, (painting)

Catalog Data

Artist:
Carre, Michael 1666-1728  Search this
Type:
Paintings
Exhibition Catalogs
Date:
1876
Notes:
Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 15 (Sale info: For Sale).
"Spring is represented drawn by oxen and sheep in her chariot, and strewing flowers - with a group of nymphs, dancing for joy of the returning year, in the distant ground. A very agreeable and excellent historical landscape - a good effect of light and shade, and well coloured. Painted by Michael Carre, (a disciple of the celebrated N. Berghem,) who was born at Amsterdam in 1666, died 1798." [P. 4.]
Descriptive Catalogue of Original Cabinet Paintings, now arranged in the Gallery, Doggett's Repository of Arts, entrance at No. 16, Market-Street, and may be viewed every day, from 8 in the morning till sunset; being a truly splendid and valuable Collection of one hundred and sixty-four Cabinet Paintings in elegant frames; selected on the Continent of Europe, at the Expense of thirty thousand dollars, and are warranted to comprise the works of the Great Masters, from the 13th Century to the Present Time.
Topic:
Allegory--Season--Spring  Search this
Animal--Cattle  Search this
Animal--Sheep  Search this
Mythology--Classical--Nymph  Search this
Figure(s) In Exterior  Search this
Ceremony--Procession--Triumph  Search this
Control number:
AECI 03260015
Data Source:
Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_aeci_67702