Vanitas of Venus: Parisian Virtues

Prints and Drawings

c. 1890

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
French, 1824-1898

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Title: Vanitas of Venus: Parisian Virtues
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1885–1895
Medium: Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on tan tracing paper, laid down on buff wove paper
Dimensions: 32.8 × 50 cm (12 15/16 × 19 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
Reference Number: 1971.308
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Estate of the artist [stamp lower center, in image, black ink, Lugt 2104]. Sold by Adolphe Stein, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1971.

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