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
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
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Title
- Two Flying Figures with a Lyre (Study for The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses)
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1878–1898
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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
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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.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Kasriel Tausk
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Reference Number
- 1981.312
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/62456/manifest.json