Summer

Summer

1572
Artist
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian, 1527-1593
Object
painting
Medium
Oil paint on canvas
Accession Number
1961.56
Credit Line
Funds from Helen Dill bequest

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Summer, 1572. Oil paint on canvas; 36 × 27 ¾ in. (91.4 × 70.5 cm). Funds from Helen Dill bequest, 1961.56

Dimensions
image height: 36 in, 91.4400 cm; image width: 27.75 in, 70.4850 cm; frame height: 48 1/2 in, 123.1900 cm; frame width: 40 1/4 in, 102.2350 cm; frame depth: 3 in, 7.6200 cm
Inscription
[woven into the collar of jacket] Giuseppe Arcimboldo; [woven into the shoulder of jacket] 1572
Department
European and American Art Before 1900
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture before 1900
This object is currently on view
Known Provenance
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Exhibition History
  • "Arcimboldo"—Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 02/12/2008 - 06/29/2008
  • "Giuseppe Arcimboldo"—The National Museum of Western Art, 06/20/2017 - 09/24/2017
  • Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica di Palazzo Barberini, 10/19/2017 - 02/11/2018