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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Example Sentences

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

His role models were the dull but successful salon painter Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and the more stimulating Ingres, who told him: “Draw lines ... lots of lines, from nature and from memory.”

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2011

A bit of the soul of Puvis de Chavannes floated there.

From Pierre and Luce by Rolland, Romain