Compositional study for The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, 1824-1898)
1883/84
- Medium
- Black chalk on tan wove tracing paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 19.3 × 26.2 cm (7 5/8 × 10 3/8 in.); Secondary support: 21.2 × 27.8 cm (8 3/8 × 11 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Suzanne Searle Dixon Endowment
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This small study—the culmination of many preparatory sketches—is the final schema by Puvis de Chavannes for his highly influential painting The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and Muses, which is in the Art Institute’s collection.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
