# Ceres \(Summer\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [WATTEAU, Antoine]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 142 x 116 cm ## Commentary In ancient Roman religion, Ceres was a goddess of agriculture who presides over Summer. The present painting originally formed part of a set of four oval paintings representing the Four Seasons. They most likely served as overdoors for the dining room of a Paris hôtel where Watteau was living from about 1715-17. The other parts of the series were either lost or destroyed, but they were engraved for the compendium of prints after Watteau, the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/d/desplace/spring.html'\)" href="/html/d/desplace/spring.html">Spring</a> by Louis Desplaces; the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/d/dubos/summer.html'\)" href="/html/d/dubos/summer.html">Summer</a> by Marie-Jeanne Renard Dubos; the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/f/fessard/autumn.html'\)" href="/html/f/fessard/autumn.html">Autumn</a> by Etienne Fessard; and the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/a/audran/jean/winter.html'\)" href="/html/a/audran/jean/winter.html">Winter</a> by Jean Audran. ## Related artworks - [A Halt During the Chase]() - [A Seated Woman]() - [Actors from the Comédie Française]() - [Actors of the Comédie-Française]() - [An Embarrassing Proposal \(detail\)]() - [An Embarrassing Proposal]() - [Back of Woman]() - [Cajoler]() - [Chinese Musician and Chinese Woman]() - [Chinese Woman of Kouei Tchéou]() - [Diana at her Bath]() - [Faun]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()