Summer

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Title

Summer

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1873

Medium

Watercolor and gouache, over graphite, with a border in silver paint and pen and black ink, on cream wove laminate board

Inscriptions

Inscribed and dated recto, lower right corner, in brush and gray wash: "P. Puvis de Chavannes/1873–"; inscribed verso, center in graphite: "14 1/8 x 8"

Dimensions

Image: 22.5 × 36.2 cm (8 7/8 × 14 5/16 in.); Sheet: 24.3 × 38 cm (9 5/8 × 15 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

Reference Number

2013.1009

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