Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
French, 1824–1898
Born in Lyons; died in Paris.
Puvis de Chavannes was the leading French mural painter of the later nineteenth century, decorating public buildings such as the Panthéon and the Sorbonne in Paris, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in his native Lyon and the Boston Public Library. His calm, simplified figures, pale colours and flattened space, inspired by early Italian fresco, set him apart from academic painting and influenced Seurat, Gauguin and the Symbolists.
Written by Ochre Editions.
- In the collection
- 2 worksDated 1891–1896
- Mostly
- Paintings
- Courtesy of
- The Art Institute of Chicago, The Met
