Pierre Auguste COT (1837-1883), according to, Spring

B&W print, paper; 23 × 39 cm; framed: 44 × 58 cm
Provenance: private collection Poland

Reproduction of one of the artist's most famous paintings, created in 1873,
depicting an allegorical scene of a young man and a girl in the setting of a
spring garden.
Thanks to the success of the work, as early as the 1870s, people began to make its
reproductions in the form of engravings and lithographs, and a little later also photogravures. It was one of the
of the most frequently reproduced paintings of the Academy period - along with Innocence by the same
of the same artist.
Reproductions circulated widely in both France and the United States
(especially thanks to the popularity of exhibitions in Paris and New York), which contributed to the painting's
to the painting's enduring presence in the visual culture of the 19th and 20th centuries.