Live Auction 5877Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (Lyon 1824-1898 Paris)
Lot 138 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (Lyon 1824-1898 Paris)

A mother and child in a landscape

Closed2 December 2014

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GBP 3,750

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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (Lyon 1824-1898 Paris)
A mother and child in a landscape
dedicated and signed 'a monsieur le Dr. de Grandmont / son bien devoué / P. Puvis de Chavannes'
red chalk, stumping, on tracing paper
40 7/8 x 13 1/8 in. (40.2 x 33.5 cm.)

with Galerie E. de Causans, Paris, where acquired by the previous owner, thence by descent.

Specialist note

The drawing is a preparatory sketch for the figures at the center of the large painting The Summer (Paris, Musée d'Orsay) executed in 1873 and exhibited at the Salon of that same year (Brown Price, op. cit., no. 197). Puvis used it again in a later painting circa 1885-7, The young mother, also in the Musée d'Orsay (op. cit., no. 323).