Ludus pro patria (Patriotic Games)
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
ca. 1883–89
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
13 1/8 x 52 7/8 in. (33.3 x 134.3 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham, 1958
Accession Number
58.15.1
Tags
MenFemale NudesSportsLandscapesAthletes
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...