DESPLACES, Louis
(b. 1682, Paris, d. 1739, Paris)

Spring

1730s
Engraving
National Gallery of Art, Washington

The Spring was engraved after a painting from the series Four Seasons by Watteau for a compendium of prints after Watteau: L'oeuvre d'Antoine Watteau (volume I). The painting was destroyed by fire in 1966.

The other parts of the series was also engraved: the Summer by Marie-Jeanne Renard Dubos; the Autumn by Etienne Fessard; and the Winter by Jean Audran.