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Pierre Puvis De Chavannes
French, 1824–1898
Study for "La Vieille de Ste. Geneviève"
1896–98
Image Caption
Pierre Puvis De Chavannes, Study for "La Vieille de Ste. Geneviève", 1896–98, black chalk on tracing paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1720
Medium
black chalk on tracing paper
Dimensions
Overall: 17 1/16 x 7 1/8 in. (43.4 x 18.1 cm)
Object Number
1955.1720
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty: A Selection of Nineteenth Century French Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1965.
Provenance
Albert Pra (sale Paris, Charpentier, June 17, 1938, no. 28, to Durand-Ruel); Durand-Ruel, Paris (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1938).