Artworks · Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Hope (L'espérance) from L'Estampe Moderne, Number 12

1898 · Lithograph from a portfolio of five lithographs

Museum of Modern Art

The Poor Fisherman (Le Pauvre pêcheur)

1897 · lithograph in purple on laid paper paper

image: 41 x 52.5 cm (16 1/8 x 20 11/16 in.) sheet: 43.3 x 57 cm (17 1/16 x 22 7/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Poor Fisherman (Le Pauvre pêcheur)

1897 · lithograph in purple on laid paper

image: 41 x 52.5 cm (16 1/8 x 20 11/16 in.) sheet: 43.3 x 57 cm (17 1/16 x 22 7/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Poor Fisherman (Le Pauvre pêcheur)

1897 · lithograph in purple on laid paper

overall: 43.3 × 57.3 cm (17 1/16 × 22 9/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

In the Heather

1896 · Oil on canvas

80.6 × 99.7 cm (31 3/4 × 39 1/4 in.); Framed: 97.5 × 116.6 × 8 cm (38 3/8 × 45 7/8 × 3 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Study of a Woman (Abundance)

1895 · lithograph in brown on laid paper

sheet: 39.3 x 24.2 cm (15 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Etude

1895 · lithograph in gray on thin japan paper

National Gallery of Art

Etude

1895 · lithograph in red on wove paper

National Gallery of Art

Etude

1895 · report (?) lithograph [photolithograph?] on japan paper

National Gallery of Art

Etude

1895 · report (?) lithograph [photolithograph?] in black on japan paper

National Gallery of Art

Etude

1895 · report (?) lithograph [photolithograph?] in black on japan paper

National Gallery of Art

Étude

1895 · report (?) lithograph in brown on heavy japan paper

National Gallery of Art

La toilette

1895 · transfer lithograph in gray on heavy japan paper

image: 30.9 x 25.9 cm (12 3/16 x 10 3/16 in.) sheet: 38.2 x 27.9 cm (15 1/16 x 11 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Croquis (Sketches)

1895 · lithograph in dark gray on heavy japan paper

sheet: 37.1 x 28.1 cm (14 5/8 x 11 1/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Croquis (Sketches)

1895 · lithograph in red-brown on heavy japan paper

sheet: 37.8 x 28.3 cm (14 7/8 x 11 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

La Fortune [Fortune]

1895 · Photolithograph in dark brown on cream Japanese paper

Image: 15.2 × 31 cm (6 × 12 1/4 in.); Sheet: 39.4 × 23.5 cm (15 9/16 × 9 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Studie van twee naakte mannen met een bos stro

1895 · chalk lithograph on paper

height: 376 cm, width: 280 cm

Rijksmuseum

Normandie (Normandy)

1893 · lithograph in printed in brown on Japan paper

image: 46.3 × 39.2 cm (18 1/4 × 15 7/16 in.) sheet: 55.3 × 43.6 cm (21 3/4 × 17 3/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Shepherd's Song

1891 · Oil on canvas

41 1/8 x 43 1/4 in. (104.5 x 109.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Shepherd's Song

1891 · Oil on canvas

41 1/8 x 43 1/4 in. (104.5 x 109.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Allegory of the Sorbonne

1889 · Oil on canvas

32 5/8 x 180 1/4 in. (82.9 x 457.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Allegory of the Sorbonne

1889 · Oil on canvas

32 5/8 x 180 1/4 in. (82.9 x 457.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Fisherman's Family

1887 · Oil on canvas

82.5 × 71.8 cm (32 1/2 × 28 1/4 in.); Framed: 102.9 × 91.4 × 10.2 cm (40 1/2 × 36 × 4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Tamaris

1886 · Oil on canvas

10 x 15 1/2 in. (25.4 x 39.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Study for Geometry in “The Sorbonne"

1886 · Fabricated black crayon, squared with blue crayon

10 x 6 7/8 in. (25.4 x 17.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tamaris

1886 · Oil on canvas

10 x 15 1/2 in. (25.4 x 39.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Vanitas of Venus: Parisian Virtues

1885 · Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on tan tracing paper, laid down on buff wove paper

32.8 × 50 cm (12 15/16 × 19 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Head of a Woman

1885 · Black chalk on tan laid paper

27.1 × 19.3 cm (10 11/16 × 7 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Inter artes et naturam (Between Art and Nature)

1885 · Oil on canvas

15 7/8 x 44 3/4 in. (40.3 x 113.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Inter artes et naturam (Between Art and Nature)

1885 · Oil on canvas

15 7/8 x 44 3/4 in. (40.3 x 113.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses

1884 · Oil on canvas

93 × 231 cm (36 7/16 × 90 15/16 in.); Framed: 124.5 × 243.8 × 19.1 cm (49 × 96 × 7 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Compositional study for The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses

1883 · Black chalk on tan wove tracing paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

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.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Christian Inspiration

1883 · Pastel over watercolor, gouache, on cream-colored paper

Image: 18 5/8 x 23 1/2 in. (47.3 x 59.7 cm); sheet: 19 5/8 x 24 3/16 in. (49.9 x 61.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Seated Figure: Study for “A Vision of Antiquity”

1883 · Fabricated black crayon, squared

14 5/8 x 10 1/4 in. (37.2 x 26 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Prodigal Son

1879 · oil on linen

overall: 106.5 x 146.7 cm (41 15/16 x 57 3/4 in.) framed: 130.8 x 171.1 x 7 cm (51 1/2 x 67 3/8 x 2 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Fisherman's Family

1878 · Watercolor, with brush and brown ink (discolored from purple), over graphite, on cream wove paper

25.3 × 20 cm (10 × 7 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Two Flying Figures with a Lyre (Study for The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses)

1878 · Graphite and charcoal, heightened with touches of white chalk, on tan tracing paper, squared in charcoal, laid down on cream wood pulp laminate board

Primary support: 27.2 × 47.7 cm (10 3/4 × 18 13/16 in.); Secondary support: 30.7 × 51 cm (12 1/8 × 20 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Ludus pro patria (Patriotic Games)

1878 · Oil on canvas

13 1/8 x 52 7/8 in. (33.3 x 134.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fisherman's Family

1878 · Red chalk on ivory wove paper

20.8 × 24.9 cm (8 1/4 × 9 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Ludus pro patria (Patriotic Games)

1878 · Oil on canvas

13 1/8 x 52 7/8 in. (33.3 x 134.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

De arme visser

1876 · chalk, paper

height: 133 cm, width: 101 cm

Rijksmuseum

A Standing Male Nude

1874 · black chalk with stumping on tracing paper, squared for transfer

sheet: 35.2 × 19.9 cm (13 7/8 × 7 13/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Summer

1873 · Watercolor and gouache, over graphite, with a border in silver paint and pen and black ink, on cream wove laminate board

Image: 22.5 × 36.2 cm (8 7/8 × 14 5/16 in.); Sheet: 24.3 × 38 cm (9 5/8 × 15 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Avalanche in an Alpine Landscape

1870 · black and white chalk on blue paper (verso)

overall: 35.9 x 23.9 cm (14 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Violinist

1870 · black and white chalk with graphite on blue paper

overall: 35.9 x 23.9 cm (14 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Sleep

1867 · Oil on canvas

26 1/8 x 41 3/4 in. (66.4 x 106 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rest

1863 · oil on canvas

overall: 108.5 x 148 cm (42 11/16 x 58 1/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Work

1863 · oil on canvas

overall: 108.5 x 148 cm (42 11/16 x 58 1/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art