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Who painted it?
Who painted “Springtime”?
“Springtime” was painted by Pierre Auguste Cot in 1873. Where to see it: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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What to look for
Academic Art: smooth, glossy surfaces and idealised figures, usually from myth, the Bible or history; Realism shows ordinary people and Impressionism visible, broken strokes.
Pierre Auguste Cot (17 February 1837 – 2 August 1883) was a French painter of the Academic Classicism school. Wikipedia
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More by Pierre Auguste Cot
- “The Storm”, 1880
- “Mireille”, 1882
- “The Bohemian”, 1871
- “Little Girl”, 1881
- “Portrait of Alice Heine, Duchess of Richelieu, Princess of Monaco”, 1874
- “Portrait of a girl”, 1880
- “Portrait de Madame Gervais”, 1863
- “The Last Support”