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In the Heather
Provenance
Sold by the artist to Durand-Ruel, October 13, 1896 [according to Price 2010]; sold to Stanley McCormick (died 1947), November 4, 1896 [according to Price 2010]; his widow Katharine Dexter McCormick (died 1967); bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1968.
Exhibition history
London, Hayward Gallery, French Symbolist Painters: Moreau, Puvis de Chavannes, Redon and Their Followers, June 7–July 23, 1972, cat. 232; traveled to Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, August 9–September 17, 1972.
Publications
René Gimpel, Journal d’un collectionneur (Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1963), p. 232; translated (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966), p. 222; reprinted (Paris: Hermann, 2011, p. 328. Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1967–1968 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1968), p. 20. John H. Neff, “Puvis de Chavannes: Three Easel Paintings,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 4 (1969), pp. 68, 78, 79–80, 85 n. 48, fig. 12. Aimée Brown Price, “Puvis de Chavannes: A Study of the Easel Paintings and A Catalogue of the Painted Works,” (Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1972), p. 654–55, no. 358. Louise d’Argencourt, Puvis de Chavannes: 1824–1898, exh. cat. (Paris: Grand Palais, 1977), p. 237 under no. 214; translated (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1977), p. 235. Russell T. Clement, Four French Symbolists: A Sourcebook on Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, and Maurice Denis (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996), p. 48. Aimée Brown Price, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010), vol. 1, p. 135; vol. 2 pp. 393–94, cat. 428.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, 1824–1898)
- Date
- 1896
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 80.6 × 99.7 cm (31 3/4 × 39 1/4 in.); Framed: 97.5 × 116.6 × 8 cm (38 3/8 × 45 7/8 × 3 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Bequest of Katharine Dexter McCormick
- Accession no.
- 1968.304
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