Two Flying Figures with a Lyre (Study for The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses)

Prints and Drawings

c. 1883

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
French, 1824-1898

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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Artist: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Title: Two Flying Figures with a Lyre (Study for The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses)
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.: 1878–1898
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.)
Credit Line: Gift of Kasriel Tausk
Reference Number: 1981.312
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Tokyo, The Bunkamura Museum of Art, “Arcadia by the Shore - The Mythic World of Puvis de Chavannes”, January 2 - March 9, 2014, p. 130, D57 (ill.), traveled to Shimane Art Museum, Matsue, March 20 - June 16, 2014.

Estate of the artist [stamp recto, upper left, in black ink, Lugt 2104]. Slatkin Gallery, New York. Kovler Gallery, New York; Dr. Kasriel L. Tausk, Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 1981.

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