April 17, 2024
1880 P. Puvis de CHAVANNES (PAINTER Artist) Original Photograph
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1880 P. Puvis de CHAVANNES (PAINTER Artist) Original Photograph Description Pierre Puvis de CHAVANNES - Portrait et Biographie Camées Artistiques - Cliché Mulnier Paris - 1880 4 pages in folio avec portrait en photoglyptie Goupil (format 12 x 8,5 cm) collé dans un encadrement au centre du premier feuillet // 4 pages folio (disbound) with portrait woodburytype Goupil (12 x 8.5 cm) mounted in a frame in the center of the first page. Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (14 December 1824 – 24 October 1898) was a French painter, who became the president and co-founder of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and whose work influenced many other artists.His work is seen as symbolist in nature, even though he studied with some of the romanticists, and he is credited with influencing an entire generation of painters and sculptors. One of his protégés was Georges de Feure.Puvis de Chavannes is noted for painting murals, several of which may be seen at the Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) in Paris, the Sorbonne, and the Paris Panthéon, and at Poitiers, as well as at the Boston Public Library in the United States.Puvis de Chavannes was president and co-founder in 1890 of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (National Society of Fine Arts) founded in Paris. It became the dominant salon of art at the time and held exhibitions of contemporary art that was
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