# 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._

2 works in the collection.

- [The Shepherd's Song](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-shepherd-s-song-met-437344), Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1891. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [In the Heather](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/in-the-heather-aic-29395), Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1896. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.