The Four Seasons: Autumn: Putti with Goat and Grapes (after Edmé Bouchardon)

French School. Oil painting (en cama?eu/cirage) on canvas stuck on boards (oval), The Four Seasons: Autumn: Putti with Goat and Grapes (after Edmé Bouchardon), French School, 19-20th century. One of a set of four. These half-heartedly illusionistic paintings are adaptations of the reliefs carved on the Fontaine de Grenelle in Paris by Jaques-Edme Bouchardon, from 1739. Autumn is represented by three full-length putti and a goat. The putto on the left is lying on his back, head to the left, both his arms raised up, a goat on the far left, has reared up on his hind legs and stands over him, the goat is trying to seize a basket of grapes which lies tumbled on the chest of the putto on his back. The putto in the centre stands with his legs apart his right leg forward, and grasps with his left hand the goat's right horn to try to push him off. The third putto is on the far right, kneeling, turned to the right, and gazing at the spectator, he holds a bunch of grapes and vine leaves in his hands. In the foreground a dish with a stem, has toppled over spilling some grapes and vine leaves on the ground. In the background on the left is a tree with leaves and ivy growing on it, on the right background can be seen a wicker fence. Wimpole, Cambridgeshire (Accredited Museum)