Winter, plate four from Le Quatre Saisons

Winter, plate four from Le Quatre Saisons — Charles-Joseph Natoire. 1735.

Medium: Etching on buff laid paper. Dimensions: Plate: 26.8 × 26.8 cm (10 9/16 × 10 9/16 in.); Sheet: 28.4 × 42.8 cm (11 3/16 × 16 7/8 in.).

Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

This print probably represents Winter, one of the Four Seasons Natoire etched that were advertised in the Mercure de France in 1735. These prints are all that remain to document four paintings on wood commissioned for the chateau of La Chapelle-Godefroy: confiscated during the Revolution, three of the oils, including Winter, were lost in a fire in 1814 of the chateau of Pont-sur-Seine, the residence of Laetitia Bonaparte; the fourth panel has since been lost.

Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.