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A giclée print on 200gsm matte fine art paper, using a twelve-colour process for accurate, fade-resistant colour. Supplied unframed, delivered flat or rolled.
Landscape with Bathers - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
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Description
A muted and dreamlike landscape painting by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, featuring a figure in soft, diffused light and a restrained colour palette. The work evokes a sense of serenity and introspection, characteristic of the Symbolist movement.
This oil on canvas painting by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) presents a muted, dreamlike scene. Puvis de Chavannes was a French painter associated with the Symbolist movement, known for his allegorical and classically inspired works. His style often featured pale colours, simplified forms, and a tranquil, melancholic atmosphere. He aimed to evoke a sense of timelessness and contemplation. The painting depicts a landscape with a figure, possibly a bather, rendered in soft, diffused light. The composition is divided into two distinct areas. The left side shows a hazy, indistinct landscape with a hint of a building in the distance. The right side features a framed painting within the painting, showing a figure standing in water. The colour palette is restrained, dominated by greys, blues, and greens, contributing to the overall sense of serenity and introspection. The brushwork is loose and suggestive, adding to the ethereal quality of the scene. The work reflects Puvis de Chavannes' interest in creating idyllic and timeless visions, often drawing on classical and mythological themes.
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Landscape with Bathers - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
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From $29.00 USD
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From $29.00 USD
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Fine Art Poster / A4 (21x29.7 cm) / -
Artist Biography
Pierre Puvis De Chavannes
Puvis de Chavannes painted murals for the Boston Public Library without ever visiting Boston. He worked from marble samples and architectural models shipped to his Paris studio, matching pale fresco-like colours to a building he would never enter. The library got eight stairway murals. Boston got a painter who did not need to see a place to understand it.
He was born in Lyon in 1824, the son of a mining engineer from an old Burgundian noble family. He added the ancestral "de Chavannes" to his name himself. A serious illness interrupted his planned engineering career; a trip to Italy redirected him toward painting. Back in Paris he studied briefly under Delacroix, then under Henri Scheffer and Thomas Couture, but developed a style that owed little to any of them: simplified forms, rhythmic outlines, muted colour that imitated the appearance of fresco, applied to large allegorical subjects drawn from antiquity and French history.
His murals at the Pantheon in Paris (begun 1874, depicting the life of Saint Genevieve) and at town halls, churches and civic buildings across France earned him the informal title "the painter for France". The technique was not true fresco but oil on canvas affixed to the wall (marouflage), which allowed him to work in his studio. The pale, flattened surfaces influenced an unlikely range of successors: Seurat studied his compositions, Gauguin absorbed his flat colour planes, Maurice Denis built Nabi theory partly on his example, and Picasso's Blue Period owes something to his chalky palette.
From 1856 he was in a relationship with the Romanian princess Marie Cantacuzene. They were together for forty years, marrying only shortly before both died in 1898.
He was born in Lyon in 1824, the son of a mining engineer from an old Burgundian noble family. He added the ancestral "de Chavannes" to his name himself. A serious illness interrupted his planned engineering career; a trip to Italy redirected him toward painting. Back in Paris he studied briefly under Delacroix, then under Henri Scheffer and Thomas Couture, but developed a style that owed little to any of them: simplified forms, rhythmic outlines, muted colour that imitated the appearance of fresco, applied to large allegorical subjects drawn from antiquity and French history.
His murals at the Pantheon in Paris (begun 1874, depicting the life of Saint Genevieve) and at town halls, churches and civic buildings across France earned him the informal title "the painter for France". The technique was not true fresco but oil on canvas affixed to the wall (marouflage), which allowed him to work in his studio. The pale, flattened surfaces influenced an unlikely range of successors: Seurat studied his compositions, Gauguin absorbed his flat colour planes, Maurice Denis built Nabi theory partly on his example, and Picasso's Blue Period owes something to his chalky palette.
From 1856 he was in a relationship with the Romanian princess Marie Cantacuzene. They were together for forty years, marrying only shortly before both died in 1898.
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Museum-grade giclée on FSC-certified archival matte paper, with framed and canvas options.
- Paper sizes: A4, A3, A2, A1, A0 and B2 (50×70 cm)
- Canvas: XS (20×30 cm) to Large (60×90 cm)
- Frames: black, natural wood, dark wood or white
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Fine Art Framed
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The same fine art print in a solid wood frame with UV-protective acrylic glaze and rigid backing. Five frame colours. Arrives ready to hang.
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A deeper solid wood frame: 33mm deep with a 20mm face and Perspex glaze. The print sits unmounted for a clean gallery presentation. Black, white or natural.
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Hand-stretched canvas with neat gallery-wrapped edges, giving the artwork surface texture and depth. Arrives ready to hang.
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Stretched canvas set in a floating wood frame, our most substantial finish. Arrives ready to hang.
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Artist Biography
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Puvis de Chavannes painted murals for the Boston Public Library without ever visiting Boston. He worked from marble samples and architectural models shipped to his Paris studio, matching pale fresco-like colours to a building he would never enter. The library got eight stairway murals. Boston got a painter who did not need to see a place to understand it.
He was born in Lyon in 1824, the son of a mining engineer from an old Burgundian noble family. He added the ancestral "de Chavannes" to his name himself. A serious illness interrupted his planned engineering career; a trip to Italy redirected him toward painting. Back in Paris he studied briefly under Delacroix, then under Henri Scheffer and Thomas Couture, but developed a style that owed little to any of them: simplified forms, rhythmic outlines, muted colour that imitated the appearance of fresco, applied to large allegorical subjects drawn from antiquity and French history.
His murals at the Pantheon in Paris (begun 1874, depicting the life of Saint Genevieve) and at town halls, churches and civic buildings across France earned him the informal title "the painter for France". The technique was not true fresco but oil on canvas affixed to the wall (marouflage), which allowed him to work in his studio. The pale, flattened surfaces influenced an unlikely range of successors: Seurat studied his compositions, Gauguin absorbed his flat colour planes, Maurice Denis built Nabi theory partly on his example, and Picasso's Blue Period owes something to his chalky palette.
From 1856 he was in a relationship with the Romanian princess Marie Cantacuzene. They were together for forty years, marrying only shortly before both died in 1898.
He was born in Lyon in 1824, the son of a mining engineer from an old Burgundian noble family. He added the ancestral "de Chavannes" to his name himself. A serious illness interrupted his planned engineering career; a trip to Italy redirected him toward painting. Back in Paris he studied briefly under Delacroix, then under Henri Scheffer and Thomas Couture, but developed a style that owed little to any of them: simplified forms, rhythmic outlines, muted colour that imitated the appearance of fresco, applied to large allegorical subjects drawn from antiquity and French history.
His murals at the Pantheon in Paris (begun 1874, depicting the life of Saint Genevieve) and at town halls, churches and civic buildings across France earned him the informal title "the painter for France". The technique was not true fresco but oil on canvas affixed to the wall (marouflage), which allowed him to work in his studio. The pale, flattened surfaces influenced an unlikely range of successors: Seurat studied his compositions, Gauguin absorbed his flat colour planes, Maurice Denis built Nabi theory partly on his example, and Picasso's Blue Period owes something to his chalky palette.
From 1856 he was in a relationship with the Romanian princess Marie Cantacuzene. They were together for forty years, marrying only shortly before both died in 1898.
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