Sketch for the wall painting Summer for the Town Hall in Paris

The compositional study is sketch for the decoration of several salons and the staircase of honour that Puvis de Chavannes did for the Town Hall in Paris. The work was important and much-admired. These drawings are designed for the wall painting Summer, which adorns one of the salons together with its pair ainting Winter. The generally harmonious concept of Summer represents a dream about carefree peace in a cloud-free landscape, with groups of figure without attributed symbolizing pleasant activities that may be undertaken in nature.