Avalanche in an Alpine Landscape
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
c. 1870
Medium
black and white chalk on blue paper (verso)
Dimensions
overall: 35.9 x 23.9 cm (14 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Maxwell Fund
Accession Number
2007.66.1.b
About the Artist
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · 1824–1898
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824–1898) was a French painter who became the foremost muralist of nineteenth-century France and a crucial bridge between academic tradition and modernism. Born in Lyon to a prosperous family, he studied briefly with Henri Scheffer and Thomas Couture in Paris and traveled to Italy, where the frescoes of the Italian Renaissance made a lasting impression on his artistic v...