Description
Study for the painting Le Bois Sacre, c.1883 Graphite and charcoal, heightened with touches of white chalk on tan tracing paper squared in charcoal, laid down on cream cardboard
Provenance
Estate of the artist [stamp recto, upper left, in black ink, Lugt 2104]. Slatkin Gallery, New York. Kovler Gallery, New York; Dr. Kasriel L. Tausk, Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 1981.
Two Flying Figures with a Lyre (Study for The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses)
Pierre Puvis de Chavannesc. 1883
Accession Number
62456
Medium
Graphite and charcoal, heightened with touches of white chalk, on tan tracing paper, squared in charcoal, laid down on cream wood pulp laminate board
Dimensions
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.)
Classification
graphite
Credit Line
Gift of Kasriel Tausk