Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) occupied a unique position in 19th-century French painting: he was one of the few academic painters whose work was deeply admired by the avant-garde artists of his day. Born in Lyons on Dec. 14, 1824, Pierre Puvis...

After two decades of silence, a book has finally been published which treats the work of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. The artist was one of the most important painters in France in the second half of the 19th century. Hailed in the 1880s...

At a time when French culture was aesthetically and politically polarized, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes provided a convincing national idiom. This paper examines the critical reception of Puvis de Chavannes's mural Summer (Paris, Hotel de Ville, 1891) in the context of debates about modernism,...