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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (Lyon 1824-1898 Paris)

A mother and child in a landscape

Price realised GBP 3,750
Estimate
GBP 2,000 – GBP 3,000
Closed: 2 Dec 2014
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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (Lyon 1824-1898 Paris)

A mother and child in a landscape

Price realised GBP 3,750
Closed: 2 Dec 2014
Price realised GBP 3,750
Closed: 2 Dec 2014
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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (Lyon 1824-1898 Paris)
A mother and child in a landscape
dedicated and signed 'a monsieur le Dr. de Grandmont / son bien devoué / P. Puvis de Chavannes'
red chalk, stumping, on tracing paper
40 7/8 x 13 1/8 in. (40.2 x 33.5 cm.)
Provenance
with Galerie E. de Causans, Paris, where acquired by the previous owner, thence by descent.
Literature
A. Brown Price, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, A catalogue raisonné of the painted work, New Haven and London, II, 2010, p. 302, under no. 323.
Exhibited
Paris, Grand Palais, and Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Puvis de Chavannes 1824-1898, 1976-7, no. 99.

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