Spring provides baby animals, summer does suntans and winter has Christmas, but for many, it is autumn that wins the battle of the seasons. Temperatures become bearable, so coats can be retrieved from the cupboards, the languor instilled by the heat is slain with a fresh gust of wind, and the parks transform into riotous orgies of colour. This is a time of energy and plenty – depicted in the arts by a sprightly hare, a ho...