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Inscriptions
Inscribed lower left: P. Puvis de Chavannes
Provenance
Durand-Ruel, New York and Paris, by 1890 [this and the following according to Durand-Ruel, stock book, Potter Palmer: "Tableaux achetés à Durand-Ruel, New York," no. 965/674; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Potter Palmer and Bertha Honoré Palmer (died 1918), Chicago, March 1, 1890 [letter from Durand-Ruel to W.M.R. French, Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 23, 1890; copy in curatorial object file]; by descent to their sons, Honoré and Potter Palmer, Jr.; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.
Exhibition history
London, National Gallery, After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art, Mar. 25 - Aug. 13, 2023, cat. 1; Moscow, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Sep. 25, 2023 - Jan. 29, 2024 [London only].
Publications
Aimée Brown-Price, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes vol. 2: Catalogue Raisonne of the Painted Work (New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2010), 280–81 pl. 127, 182 cat. 304. Maryanne Stevens, After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art, exh. cat. (London: National Gallery Global; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023), 32 cat. 1, 66, 67-68 (ill).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, 1824–1898)
- Date
- 1884–89
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 93 × 231 cm (36 7/16 × 90 15/16 in.); Framed: 124.5 × 243.8 × 19.1 cm (49 × 96 × 7 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Potter Palmer Collection
- Accession no.
- 1922.445
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