Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
The River
c. 1865129.5 x 252.1 cm
Oil on paper laid down on canvas
Signed lower right: P.Puvis de Chavannes
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1926
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
Price 130
Collection catalogues
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 69
Provenance
the artist, until 1893, sold on 6 September to Durand-Ruel
with Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1893–1906, sold on 3 February 1906 to Hébrard for Wagram
Louis-Alexandre Berthier, prince de Wagram, Paris, 1906–8
possibly with Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1908–at least 1909
with Galerie Barbazanges, Paris, by 1912–13
with Turner & Gardiner, London, 1913, sold on 2 March to Quinn
John Quinn, New York, 1913–died 1924
his estate 1924–26, sold to MMA
Other works by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
The Shepherd's Song
1891
1891
The Woodcutters
1871-73
1871-73
Cider
c. 1865
c. 1865
The Pastoral Life of Saint Geneviève
1879
1879
The prodigal son
c. 1879
c. 1879