The Four Seasons

Henry Picou

Cleveland Museum of Art

The image shows four paintings arranged in two rows. Top-left painting: Two women are depicted. The woman on the left sits and has her right hand on her face; her body faces right, but her head is turned to face the viewer. She wears a white top and a blue skirt. The woman on the right stands with her arms around the sitting woman; she wears a white, draped garment. They are surrounded by flowers and foliage. Top-right painting: Three nude women are shown standing or sitting in shallow water. The woman on the left behind and to the right of the central figure holds a yellow cloth. The central woman faces the viewer and holds her arms above her head as if arranging her hair; she wears a wreath. The woman on the right sits and faces left. A bridge and a tower are in the background. Bottom-left painting: Two women and a man are depicted. A nude woman on the right holds a basket of fruit and flowers above her head with both hands; another woman on the left faces her and touches a seated man's head with her right hand; he reclines on the ground on the left with a pink cloth near his waist. Bottom-right painting: A woman in a black garment faces right; she holds a bowl out to the right in front of her with both hands. Behind her are bare trees; a crowd of people may be in the distance. The four paintings have gold borders and are arranged within a larger gold-lined grid on a black background with red squares.