Autumn, Stone statue in Tuileries Garden, France

Autumn is a stone statue in the Tuileries Garden in Paris, showing a standing female figure adorned with elements like grapes and grain bundles. It occupies its place within the garden's symmetrical layout as part of a series representing the four seasons.

François Barois created this classical figure in 1696 on commission from the French king for the royal gardens. The work was part of a larger program to artistically shape the garden grounds during the Baroque period.

Autumn is one of four seasonal statues that François Barois delivered for the Tuileries, where the seasons were paired with the garden's planting cycles. Visitors can read the figure's attributes, grapes and sheaves of grain, as a harvest allegory placed among the beds. The marble series belongs to the garden's 17th-century sculptural programme rather than to a single monument.

The statue sits along the garden's central axis and can be easily found by walking from the Louvre Museum. Following the symmetrical paths and looking for the other seasonal figures that form the ensemble helps visitors locate it.

The marble basin at the statue's feet is a modern addition: the figure was carved for the Grand Cours at Marly and only brought to the Tuileries in the 18th century, so its present setting is not the one Barois knew.