Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
French, 1824-1898
Compositional study for The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses
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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
French, 1824-18981883/84
Compositional study for The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes French, 1824-1898 →chalkpaper
Date
1883/84
Medium
Black chalk on tan wove tracing paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Primary support: 19.3 × 26.2 cm (7 5/8 × 10 3/8 in.); Secondary support: 21.2 × 27.8 cm (8 3/8 × 11 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Suzanne Searle Dixon Endowment
This small study—the culmination of many preparatory sketches—is the final schema by Puvis de Chavannes for his highly influential painting The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and Muses, which is in the Art Institute’s collection.
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