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Study for Pantheon Murals

Artist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, 1824 - 1898)
Date19th century
MediumCharcoal on paper; mounted on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 150 1/16 × 58 11/16 inches (381.16 × 149.07 cm)
Credit LineGift of Richard S. Davis
Object number53-25
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

A Generation of Draughtsmen, University of Michigan, Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, April 25-May 29, 1962, no. 115

 

The Legacy of David and Ingres to Nineteenth Century Art, Dwight Art Memorial, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, October 12-November 13, 1966, no. 32.
Provenance

Richard S. Davis (1917–1985), Wayzata, MN, by December 26, 1952 [1];

 

Given by Richard S. Davis to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1953.

 

NOTES:

 

[1] Lt. Richard Siebe Davis, USNR, was a curator (1948-56) and then director (1956-59) at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. From January-May 1946 while assigned to Tokyo, Davis served as a “Monuments Man” in the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) Section during World War II.

Published References

A Generation of Draughtsmen, exh. cat. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1962), unpaginated. (repro.), as Study for the Panthéon Murals.


The Legacy of David and Ingres to Nineteenth Century Art, exh. cat. (South Hadley, MA: Dwight Art Memorial, 1966), unpaginated, as Study for the Pantheon murals.

 

Aimée Brown Price et al., Puvis De Chavannes, 1824-1898, exh. cat. (Paris: Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, 1976), 243, 245.
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