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Compositional study for The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes1883/84
- Attribution
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes French, 1824-1898
- Medium
- Black chalk on tan wove tracing paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
- Physical 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.)
- Credit line
- Suzanne Searle Dixon Endowment
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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.
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