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Pierre Puvis de ChavannesEditor: Paul Muljadi

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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes, c. 1880, after a negative by Étienne CarjatBirth name Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes

Born December 14, 1824Lyon, Rhône, France

Died October 24, 1898 (aged 73)Paris, France

Nationality French

Field Painting, Drawing

Training Eugène Delacroix, Henri Scheffer, Thomas Couture

Movement Symbolism

Works Death and the Maiden, The Dream, The Poor Fisherman

Influenced George Burroughs Torrey

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (14 December 1824 – 24 October 1898) was a French painter, who became thepresident and co-founder of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and whose work influenced many other artists.

LifeHe was born Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes in Lyon, Rhône, France, the son of a mining engineer, descendantof an old noble family of Burgundy. Pierre Puvis was educated at the Lyons College and at the Lycée Henri IV inParis, and was intended to follow his father's profession when a serious illness interrupted his studies. A journey toItaly opened his mind to fresh ideas, and on his return to Paris in 1844 he announced his intention of becoming apainter, and went to study first under Eugène Delacroix, Henri Scheffer, and then under Thomas Couture.[1] [2] It wasnot until a number of years later, when the government of France acquired one of his works, that he gained widerecognition.In Montmartre, he had an affair with one of his models, Suzanne Valadon, who would become one of the leadingartists of the day as well as the mother, teacher, and mentor of Maurice Utrillo.

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WorkHis work is seen as symbolist in nature, even though he studied with some of the romanticists, and he is creditedwith influencing an entire generation of painters and sculptors. One of his protégés was Georges de Feure.Puvis de Chavannes is noted for painting murals, several of which may be seen at the Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) inParis, the Sorbonne, and the Paris Panthéon, and at Poitiers, as well as at the Boston Public Library in the UnitedStates.Puvis de Chavannes was president and co-founder in 1890 of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (National Societyof Fine Arts) founded in Paris. It became the dominant salon of art at the time and held exhibitions of contemporaryart that was selected only by a jury composed of the officers of the Société.Those who translated best the spirit of the work of Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes' in their own creations were, inGermany, the painter Ludwig von Hofmann [3] and in France, Auguste Rodin.[4]

The Poor Fisherman

His easel paintings also may be found inmany American and European galleries.Some of these paintings are,• Death and the Maiden• The Dream• The Poor Fisherman / 1881, Oil on

canvas• Vigilance• The Meditation• Mary Magdalene at Saint Baume• Saint Genoveva• Young Girls at the Seaside / 1887, Oil on

canvas• Mad Woman at the Edge of the Sea• Hope• Hope (nude)• Kneeling nude woman, viewed from back• The Sacred Grove

Puvis de Chavannes prizeBeginning in 1926, The Prix Puvis de Chavannes (Puvis de Chavannes prize) was awarded by the National Societyof Fine Arts (Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts). The Prix Puvis de Chavannes is the retrospective exhibition in Parisof the main works of the artist awarded the prize that year. During the twentieth century, this exhibition was locatedat the Grand Palais or the Musée d'Art Moderne.The most famous painters who have been awarded the prize are, 1941: Wilhem Van Hasselt, 1944: Jean GabrielDomergue, 1952: Tristan Klingsor, 1955: Georges Delplanque, 1957: Albert Decaris, 1958: Jean Picard Le Doux,1963: Maurice Boitel,[5] 1966: Pierre Gaillardot, 1968: Pierre-Henry, 1969: Louis Vuillermoz, 1970: Daniel duJanerand, 1971: Jean-Pierre Alaux; 1975: Jean Monneret, and for 1987: André Hambourg.[6]

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Gallery

Musée de Picardie. clichéH.Maertens (1863)

The Shepherd'sSong (1897)

The White Rocks(1869–1872)

Doux Pays (1882)

The Dream (1883)

Further reading• Shaw, Jennifer L., Dream States: Puvis De Chavannes, Modernism, and the Fantasy of France (2002), Yale

University Press, ISBN 0-300-08382-3

References[1] Frantz 1911[2] "Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre". New International Encyclopedia. 1905.[3] (http:/ / www. lvh. ch) (German) (English) (Portuguese)[4] The study Poemas e pedras, by Rita Rios, São Paulo, to be published in 2007.[5] Home page of Maurice Boitel (http:/ / www. mauriceboitel. com)[6] Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Biennale 1991, Grand Palais, année du centenaire, catalogue pages 8 and 9

AttributionThis article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Frantz, Henri (1911). "Puvis deChavannes, Pierre Cécile". In Chisholm, Hugh. Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

External links• Commercial Art Gallery Guide (http:/ / www. artcyclopedia. com/ gallery/ puvis_de_chavannes_pierre. html)• Pierre Puvis de Chavannes at artchive.com (http:/ / www. artchive. com/ artchive/ P/ puvis. html)•  "Pierre Puvis de Chavannes". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911).Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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