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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    In the Heather
    Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. In the Heather, 1896. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00000894

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    In the Heather

    by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

    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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