Seated Figure: Study for “A Vision of Antiquity”
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
1883–85
Medium
Fabricated black crayon, squared
Dimensions
14 5/8 x 10 1/4 in. (37.2 x 26 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Fletcher Fund, 1935
Accession Number
35.93.2
Tags
Female Nudes
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...