Summer
Medium
Watercolor and gouache, over graphite, with a border in silver paint and pen and black ink, on cream wove laminate board
Dimensions
Image: 22.5 × 36.2 cm (8 7/8 × 14 5/16 in.); Sheet: 24.3 × 38 cm (9 5/8 × 15 in.)
Classification
watercolor
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
150827
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...