A mother and child in a landscape

Details

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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Lot Essay

The drawing is a preparatory sketch for the figures at the center of the large painting The Summer (Paris, Musée d'Orsay) executed in 1873 and exhibited at the Salon of that same year (Brown Price, op. cit., no. 197). Puvis used it again in a later painting circa 1885-7, The young mother, also in the Musée d'Orsay (op. cit., no. 323).

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