Description
This small study—the culmination of many preparatory sketches—is the final schema by Puvis de Chavannes for his highly influential painting The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and Muses, which is in the Art Institute’s collection.
Compositional study for The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes1883/84
Accession Number
184601
Medium
Black chalk on tan wove tracing paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Primary support: 19.3 × 26.2 cm (7 5/8 × 10 3/8 in.); Secondary support: 21.2 × 27.8 cm (8 3/8 × 11 in.)
Classification
chalk
Credit Line
Suzanne Searle Dixon Endowment