Christian Inspiration
1883–1886
Medium
Pastel over watercolor, gouache, on cream-colored paper
Dimensions
Image: 18 5/8 x 23 1/2 in. (47.3 x 59.7 cm); sheet: 19 5/8 x 24 3/16 in. (49.9 x 61.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1965
Accession Number
65.113
Rights
Public Domain
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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...