The Art Bulletin, December 1st, 1995
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 and 1890s as the only viable representative of the French tradition of classicism, Puvis de Chavannes was arguably France's last national painter. He kept a tradition of public painting alive, offering images of France in a pictorial mode that was at once convincingly modern and appropriately public. Puvis's admirers hailed from a wide political and aesthetic ...
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