Two Flying Figures with a Lyre (Study for The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses)
c. 1883
Medium
Graphite and charcoal, heightened with touches of white chalk, on tan tracing paper, squared in charcoal, laid down on cream wood pulp laminate board
Dimensions
Primary support: 27.2 × 47.7 cm (10 3/4 × 18 13/16 in.); Secondary support: 30.7 × 51 cm (12 1/8 × 20 1/8 in.)
Classification
graphite
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
62456
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Study for the painting Le Bois Sacre, c.1883 Graphite and charcoal, heightened with touches of white chalk on tan tracing paper squared in charcoal, laid down on cream cardboard
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...