id: 166677 accession number: 2008.390 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.390 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:12.367000 Study for the Mother in The Fisherman's Family, c. 1875. Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, 1824–1898). Black and white chalk with stumping, squared in black chalk; sheet: 46.6 x 32.8 cm (18 3/8 x 12 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.390 title: Study for the Mother in The Fisherman's Family title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1875 creation date earliest: 1870 creation date latest: 1880 current location: creditline: Bequest of Muriel Butkin copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: black and white chalk with stumping, squared in black chalk department: Drawings collection: Drawings type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, 1824–1898) - artist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes was born into a bourgeois family. His father intended his son to enroll at the École Polytechnique in Paris. After a prolonged illness, however, Puvis instead entered the Faculté de Droit. He became interested in art during a trip to Italy in 1846, and the following year he began studying with Henri Scheffer (1798-1862). Puvis returned to Italy in 1848 with Louis Bauderon de Vermeron (1809-1870), where he became interested in the art of mural painting. He entered the atelier of Delacroix (q.v.) for only two weeks, and later that of Couture (q.v.) for three months. Yet, Puvis's chief method of study was to work independently after live models. He was accepted in the Salon of 1850, but his submissions from 1852 through 1859 were rejected. In 1854-55 he decorated the dining room at his brother's country house, Le Brouchy, near Cuiseaux. He won a second-class medal at the Salon of 1861 for Concordia (Musée de Picardie, Amiens), which was purchased by the state. Inspired by the frescoes of Pompeii and by Piero della Francesca's Legend of the True Cross in Arezzo, Puvis pursued his interest in mural painting with great success. He received commissions to create works for the Palais des Arts in Lyons, the Pantheon and the Hôtel de Ville in Paris, the Boston Public Library, and many others. The artist strove to integrate his mural paintings with the surrounding architecture and to maintain the integrity of the flat wall surface by using broad areas of subdued color. In 1890, together with Meissonier (q.v.) and Rodin (1840-1917), Puvis founded the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, as a more progressive alternative for the regular Salon. Puvis's art had a significant impact on later artists, particularly the symbolists. --- measurements: Sheet: 46.6 x 32.8 cm (18 3/8 x 12 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: tan wove paper, possibly faded from blue, mounted to modern laid paper decorated with blue wash at margins watermarks: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin opening date: 2001-08-26T00:00:00 French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001); Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Adrien Karbowsky [1855-1945], Paris, by descent to his family date: ?-1945 footnotes: *
According to Galerie Jacques Fischer-Chantal Kiener
* citations: Family of Adrien Karbowsky, Paris date: 1945-? footnotes: *
According to Galerie Jacques Fischer-Chantal Kiener
citations: (Galerie Jacques Fischer-Chantal Kiener, Paris, sold to Muriel Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH) date: ?-probably 1980 footnotes: citations: Muriel Butkin [1916-2008], Shaker Heights, OH, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: Probably 1980-2008 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2008- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Mentioned: pp. 124-25, 144, no. 57; Reproduced: p. 125 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.390/2008.390_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.390/2008.390_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.390/2008.390_full.tif