Doux Pays (Pleasant Land) Artist: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, 1824–1898)

1882

European Art

Not on view
Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

unframed: 10 1/8 × 18 3/4 in. (25.7 × 47.6 cm)

Credit Line

Mary Gertrude Abbey Fund

Accession Number

1958.64

Culture

French

Period

19th century

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Albert Wolff Collection, Paris (according to exhibition catalogue, Paris, Durand-Ruel, 1887, no. 83); Henri Vever Collection, Paris; Paul Baudouin Collection, Paris; Paris, Hotel Drouot, 'Vente Baudouin' (10 May 1948), no. 34; sold by Kaganovitch, Paris to Dr. W. Feilchenfeldt, Zurich (1951); aquired by the museum in 1958.
Bibliography
  • Arcadia by the Shore: The Mythic World of Puvis de Chavannes, exh. cat. (Matsue, Japan: Shimane Art Museum, 2014), 112–13; 193, no. 34, fig. 27
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

human figures (visual works), landscapes (representations), seascapes

Signed

Signed lower left: "P. Puvis de Chavannes"

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