Puvis de Chavannes

American  

[py-vee duh sha-van] / pü vi də ʃaˈvan /

noun

1. Pierre Cécile 1824–98, French painter.

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Puvis de Chavannes British  

/ pyvis də ʃavan /

noun

1. Pierre Cécile (pjɛr sesil). 1824–98, French mural painter

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Puvis de Chavannes

She also appears in works by Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and Renoir, who used her in two of his better paintings, “Dance at Bougival” and “Dance in the City.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2021

The Nabi painters and printmakers were influenced by the flattened forms and archaic aura of the neoclassical muralist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and by Paul Gauguin.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2019

But, however much Gorey owes to the Surrealists, I see in him, equally, their less fun-loving predecessors, the Symbolist poets and painters of the late nineteenth century: Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Khnopff, Munch, Puvis de Chavannes, Redon.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018

I had never, for instance, heard the rumor that Puvis de Chavannes was Maurice Utrillo’s biological father.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2018

Some isolated artists, like the decorative painter Henri Martin, who has enormous talent, have applied the Impressionist technique to the expression of grand allegories, rather in the manner of Puvis de Chavannes.

From The French Impressionists (1860-1900) by Mauclair, Camille