{"product_id":"pierre-puvis-de-chavannes-25-high-resolution-images","title":"Pierre Puvis de Chavannes 25 High Resolution Images","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePierre Puvis de Chavannes, a prominent French painter of the 19th century, is celebrated for his symbolic and idealised artworks. His beautiful murals and easel paintings often convey serene themes, blending classical inspiration with modern techniques.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download features 25 hi-res images, in jpeg format, by the French artist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe images are all 600dpi and range in size from 3056 pixels wide\/tall to 6174 pixels wide\/tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClick on the link above to see a full list of the images included.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898)\u003c\/strong\u003e was a French painter known for his mural painting, who came to be known as \"the painter for France\". He became the co-founder and president of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and his work influenced many other artists, notably Robert Genin, and he aided medallists by designs and suggestions for their works. Puvis de Chavannes was a prominent painter in the early Third Republic. Émile Zola described his work as \"an art made of reason, passion, and will\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePuvis de Chavannes was born Pierre-Cécile Puvis in a suburb of Lyon, France, on December 14, 1824. He was the son of a mining engineer and descended from an old noble family of Burgundy. He later added the ancestral \"de Chavannes\" to his name. Throughout his life, he spurned his Lyon origins, preferring to identify himself with the 'strong' blood of the Burgundians, where his father originated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePuvis de Chavannes was educated at the Amiens College and at the Lycée Henri IV in Paris. He intended to follow his father's profession until a serious illness compelled him to convalesce at Mâcon with his brother and sister-in-law in 1844 and 1845, which interrupted his studies. A journey to Italy opened his mind to fresh ideas, and on his return to Paris in 1846, he announced his intention to become a painter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe studied first under Eugène Delacroix, but only very briefly, as Delacroix closed his studio shortly afterwards due to ill health. He studied subsequently under Henri Scheffer and then Thomas Couture. His training was not classical as he found that he preferred to work alone. He took a large studio near the Gare de Lyon and attended anatomy classes at the Académie des Beaux Arts. It was not until a number of years later, when the government of France acquired one of his works, that he gained wide recognition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1850, Puvis de Chavannes made his Salon debut with Dead Christ, Jeune noir à l'épée (Black youth with a sword), The Reading Lesson, and Portrait of a Man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePuvis de Chavannes's work is seen as symbolist in nature, even though he studied with some of the romanticists, and he is credited with influencing an entire generation of painters and sculptors, particularly the works of the Modernists. One of his protégés was Georges de Feure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePuvis de Chavannes is best known for his mural painting, and came to be known as 'the painter for France.' His first commission was for his brother's chateau, Le Brouchy, a medieval-style structure near Cuiseaux in Saône-et-Loire. The principal decorations take the four seasons as their theme. His first public commissions came early in the 1860s, with work at the Musée de Picardie at Amiens. The first four works were Concordia (1861), Bellum (1861), Le Travail (Work; 1863) and Le Repos (Rest; 1863). Between 1883 and 1886 he painted a mural for the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver the course of his career, Puvis received a substantial number of commissions for works to be carried out in public and private institutions throughout France. His early work at the Musée de Picardie had helped him to develop his classicising style, and the decorative aesthetic of his mural works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs far as the appreciation of his life's work is concerned, Puvis de Chavannes was never properly understood by his contemporaries. At the beginning of his career, art criticism was divided into two camps. Adored by the idealists, he was despised by the partisans of the realists. Only with the advent of Symbolism did these two camps unite, but without achieving a convincing appreciation of the painter. Today's research has inherited this contradiction of art criticism and therefore still does not offer a convincing presentation of Puvis de Chavanne's art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Montmartre, he had an affair with one of his models, Suzanne Valadon, who would become one of the leading artists of the day as well as the mother, teacher, and mentor of Maurice Utrillo. From 1856, he was in a relationship with the Romanian princess, Marie Cantacuzène. The couple were together for 40 years, and were married before their deaths in 1898.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 25 images","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51411047711050,"sku":null,"price":3.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/Pierre_Puvis_de_Chavannes_25_High_Resolution_Images.jpg?v=1753967720","url":"https:\/\/www.publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/products\/pierre-puvis-de-chavannes-25-high-resolution-images","provider":"Public Domain Image Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}