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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

18 works held in 12 museums

French Symbolist painter and muralist, 1824-1898

The Fisherman's Family, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

The Fisherman's Family, 1887.

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French), oil on canvas

Art Institute of Chicago, United States

The Apple Harvest, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

The Apple Harvest, c. 1890.

Recolte des Pommes (museum title)

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French), oil on canvas

Smithsonian American Art Museum, United States

Christian Inspiration, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Christian Inspiration, 1883–1886.

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French), pastel over watercolor and gouache

Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Saint Genevieve as a Child at Prayer, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Saint Genevieve as a Child at Prayer, c. 1877.

Sainte Geneviève enfant en prière (museum title)

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French), oil

Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, France

The Turtle Seller, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

The Turtle Seller, 1854.

Le Marchand de tortues (museum title)

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French), oil on canvas

Musée d'Orsay, France

The Young Mother, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

The Young Mother, c. 1887.

La Jeune Mère (museum title)

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French), oil on canvas

Musée d'Orsay, France

Fisherman's Family (watercolor study), Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Fisherman's Family (watercolor study), c. 1883.

Fisherman's Family (museum title)

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French), watercolor, brush and brown ink over graphite

Art Institute of Chicago, United States

Self-Portrait, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Self-Portrait, 1857.

Autoportrait (museum title)

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French), oil on canvas

Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, France

Mary Magdalene, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Mary Magdalene, 1897.

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French), oil on canvas

Hungarian National Gallery, Hungary

Christian Inspiration, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Christian Inspiration, c. 1887–1888.

Inspiration Chretienne (museum title)

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French), oil on paper mounted on canvas

Smithsonian American Art Museum, United States

Portrait of Eugène Benon, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Portrait of Eugène Benon, 1882.

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French), oil on canvas

Van Gogh Museum, Netherlands

Young Black Man with a Sword, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Young Black Man with a Sword, 1850.

Jeune noir à l'épée (museum title)

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French), oil on canvas

Musée d'Orsay, France

In the Heather, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

In the Heather, 1896.

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French), oil on canvas

Art Institute of Chicago, United States

Woman on the Beach, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Woman on the Beach, 1887.

Женщина на берегу моря (museum title)

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French), oil on paper mounted on canvas

Hermitage Museum, Russia

The Prodigal Son, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

The Prodigal Son, c. 1879.

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French), oil on linen

National Gallery of Art, United States

Summer, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Summer, 1891.

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French), oil on canvas

Cleveland Museum of Art, United States

A Maid combing a Woman's Hair, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

A Maid combing a Woman's Hair, c. 1883.

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French), oil on cardboard

National Gallery, United Kingdom

The Prodigal Son, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

The Prodigal Son, c. 1879.

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French), oil on canvas

Princeton University Art Museum, United States

Works by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898), in the public domain: paintings, painted sketches and a few finished drawings published online by the museums that hold them, each linked to its museum record. The photographs come from the museum itself when it publishes them under an open licence, otherwise from Wikimedia Commons, in the public domain or under a Creative Commons licence with the photographer's name. Only works that the museum attributes to Puvis de Chavannes himself are included, without 'workshop of', 'follower of', 'after' or 'attributed to'. Murals painted on site (Pantheon, Sorbonne, City Hall, libraries) are not shown here, except where a museum holds the canvas or its sketch.