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Spring

Oil Painting
pre 1761 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Platzer, Johann Georg (artist)

Oil painting, 'Spring', Johann Georg Platzer

Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Oil painting
TitleSpring (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on copper
Oil Paint
Copper
Oil Painting
Brief description
Oil painting, 'Spring', Johann Georg Platzer
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 43.8cm
  • Estimate width: 57cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, I. Before 1800, C.M. Kauffmann, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1973
Style
Austrian School
Gallery label
Revised Jones Gallery Label, November 2000 (Mary Guyatt):

SPRING and SUMMER
By Johann Georg Platzer (1704-61)
AUSTRIAN; about 1740
Oil on copper

These dancing and feasting scenes represent Spring and Summer respectively. Such seasonal subjects were popular in the eighteenth century, produced by many artists and widely available in the form of engraved prints.

Platzer specialised in historical and mythological scenes and was influenced by Flemish art of the previous century; the figures here are dressed in seventeenth century fashions.

Bequeathed by Mrs J. A. Bonner
367-1901
368-1901
Credit line
Bequeathed by Mrs Julia Anne Bonnor
Object history
Bequeathed by Mrs Julia Anne Bonnor, 1901
Subjects depicted
Spring
Dancing
Women
Men
Fantastic Architecture
Flowers
Bibliographic reference
Kauffmann, C.M. Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, I. Before 1800. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973, pp. 222-223, cat. no. 277.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
367-1901

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Record createdFebruary 6, 2001
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O54265/spring-oil-painting-platzer-johann-georg/
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