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Pierre Puvis De Chavannes
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Between Art and Nature - Pierre Puvis de ChavannesPrint
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Landscape with Bathers - Pierre Puvis de ChavannesPrint · Framed · Canvas
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Floral Design (After Pierre Puvis de Chavannes) - Fine Art PrintPrint · Framed · Canvas
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Mary Magdalene in the Desert - Pierre Puvis de ChavannesPrint
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Centennial of Lithography - Pierre Puvis de ChavannesPrint
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Marseilles, Gate to the Orient - Pierre Puvis de ChavannesPrint
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Allegory of Charity - Pierre Puvis de ChavannesPrint
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The Song of the Shepherd - Pierre Puvis de ChavannesPrint
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Tamaris - Pierre Puvis de ChavannesPrint
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The Happy Land - Pierre Puvis de ChavannesPrint
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The Dream: In his sleep he Saw Love, Glory and Wealth Appear to Him - Pierre Puvis de ChavannesPrint
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Homer: Epic Poetry - Pierre Puvis de ChavannesPrint
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Greek Colony, Marseille - Pierre Puvis de ChavannesPrint
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The Poor Fisherman - Pierre Puvis de ChavannesPrint
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Sleep - Pierre Puvis de ChavannesPrint
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The Shepherd's Song - Pierre Puvis de ChavannesPrint
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Life of St. Genevieve - Pierre Puvis de ChavannesPrint
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Centenaire de la Lithographie - Pierre Puvis de ChavannesPrint
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The Village Firemen - Pierre Puvis de ChavannesPrint
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Orpheus - Pierre Puvis de ChavannesPrint
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Children in an Orchard - Pierre Puvis de ChavannesPrint
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The Prodigal Son 2 - Pierre Puvis de ChavannesPrint
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Patriotic Games - Pierre Puvis de ChavannesPrint
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Thomas-Alfred Jones (Pierre Puvis de Chavannes) - Pierre Puvis de ChavannesPrint
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Artist Biography
Pierre Puvis De Chavannes
Puvis de Chavannes painted murals for the Boston Public Library without ever visiting Boston. He worked from marble samples and architectural models shipped to his Paris studio, matching pale fresco-like colours to a building he would never enter. The library got eight stairway murals. Boston got a painter who did not need to see a place to understand it.
He was born in Lyon in 1824, the son of a mining engineer from an old Burgundian noble family. He added the ancestral "de Chavannes" to his name himself. A serious illness interrupted his planned engineering career; a trip to Italy redirected him toward painting. Back in Paris he studied briefly under Delacroix, then under Henri Scheffer and Thomas Couture, but developed a style that owed little to any of them: simplified forms, rhythmic outlines, muted colour that imitated the appearance of fresco, applied to large allegorical subjects drawn from antiquity and French history.
His murals at the Pantheon in Paris (begun 1874, depicting the life of Saint Genevieve) and at town halls, churches and civic buildings across France earned him the informal title "the painter for France". The technique was not true fresco but oil on canvas affixed to the wall (marouflage), which allowed him to work in his studio. The pale, flattened surfaces influenced an unlikely range of successors: Seurat studied his compositions, Gauguin absorbed his flat colour planes, Maurice Denis built Nabi theory partly on his example, and Picasso's Blue Period owes something to his chalky palette.
From 1856 he was in a relationship with the Romanian princess Marie Cantacuzene. They were together for forty years, marrying only shortly before both died in 1898.
He was born in Lyon in 1824, the son of a mining engineer from an old Burgundian noble family. He added the ancestral "de Chavannes" to his name himself. A serious illness interrupted his planned engineering career; a trip to Italy redirected him toward painting. Back in Paris he studied briefly under Delacroix, then under Henri Scheffer and Thomas Couture, but developed a style that owed little to any of them: simplified forms, rhythmic outlines, muted colour that imitated the appearance of fresco, applied to large allegorical subjects drawn from antiquity and French history.
His murals at the Pantheon in Paris (begun 1874, depicting the life of Saint Genevieve) and at town halls, churches and civic buildings across France earned him the informal title "the painter for France". The technique was not true fresco but oil on canvas affixed to the wall (marouflage), which allowed him to work in his studio. The pale, flattened surfaces influenced an unlikely range of successors: Seurat studied his compositions, Gauguin absorbed his flat colour planes, Maurice Denis built Nabi theory partly on his example, and Picasso's Blue Period owes something to his chalky palette.
From 1856 he was in a relationship with the Romanian princess Marie Cantacuzene. They were together for forty years, marrying only shortly before both died in 1898.
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