Le Printemps (The Return of Spring) is a title of many paintings.
Le Printemps, created by artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau in 1886, is among the more well-known of his works. It is in the collection of the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, and was acquired in 1951 as the gift of Francis T. B. Martin. In 1890 and again in 1976, the painting was physically attacked by several people offended by its overtly sensual nudity.
Another well-known painting by this title was made by Pierre Auguste Cot.
Famous quotes containing the word return:
“I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, a plant, an inanimate object, indeed lost to us until the day, which for some never arrives, when we find that we pass near the tree, or come to possess the object which is their prison. Then they quiver, call us, and as soon as we have recognized them, the spell is broken. Freed by us, they have vanquished death and return to live with us.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)