Vanitas of Venus: Parisian Virtues

Provenance

Estate of the artist [stamp lower center, in image, black ink, Lugt 2104]. Sold by Adolphe Stein, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1971.

Vanitas of Venus: Parisian Virtues

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

c. 1890

Accession Number

36120

Medium

Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on tan tracing paper, laid down on buff wove paper

Dimensions

32.8 × 50 cm (12 15/16 × 19 11/16 in.)

Classification

chalk

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection