Figures Unloading Cargo from Sailing Vessels
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
19th century
Medium
Pen and black ink, over black chalk, on beige paper.
Dimensions
11 x 6 9/16 in. (27.9 x 16.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of John G. Phillips, 1973
Accession Number
1972.270
Tags
WorkingHuman Figures
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...