Study of a Female Nude (possibly for an unrealized allegorical painting) (recto); Studies of Drapery and Study of a Landscape (verso) — Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. Study of a Female Nude (possibly for an unrealized allegorical painting) (recto); Studies of Drapery and Study of a Landscape (verso), 1800s. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).

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Study of a Female Nude (possibly for an unrealized allegorical painting) (recto); Studies of Drapery and Study of a Landscape (verso)

by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Inscriptions

inscribed upper left center in red pencil: 34; inscribed upper right in black ink: B12

Provenance

Jan Milner, NYC, April 1979

Quick Overview

Artist: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, 1824–1898)
Date: 1800s
Medium: black chalk stumped with heightening of white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions: Overall: 23.5 x 30.8 cm (9 1/4 x 12 1/8 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawing
Department: Drawings
Credit line: Bequest of Muriel Butkin
Accession no.: 2010.249

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