Autograph Letter Signed Pierre Puvis De Chavannes (1824-1898) Illustrious Painter

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Pierre cécile puvis de chavannes, born at lyon. Considered a precursor of symbolism. He is a major figure in the French painting of the second half of the year. He was one of the founders of the new national society of fine arts.

The Chavanna Puvis family is a family of former bourgeoisie from Burgundy. She kept the name of her land of chavannes. Pierre puvis de chavannes, b. Is the son of marie julien caesar puvis, engineer of mines with lyon, and marguerite guyot, daughter of a merchant.

He lived on avenue de villiers. With the Romanian princess marie Cantacuzène.

That he met in 1856 probably in the workshop of the theodore painter. Of which she's a friend.

They married, 42 years later, in 1898, a few months before their respective deaths. She has a considerable influence on him, becoming her companion, her collaborator, her muse.

After studying rhetoric and philosophy at the henri-iv high school. He's on a first trip to italia.

Then start studying painting with Henry Scheffer. He then made a second stay in italia and studied briefly with eugene delacroix. Then in the thomas sewing workshop. It is marked by the large murals of theodore chaserial.

Executed for the stairwell of the Court of Accounts. Between 1844 and 1848 (destroyed in 1871). He found his way only at the age of 30 by creating the decor of the dining room of his brother's country house (the four seasons, the return of the prodigal child), in 1854.

A master of allegorical painting. His debut at the salon. He was refused several times, and when he finally showed up, he was severely criticized. Then, in 1861, he won a first success with concordia (peace) and bellum (war) exhibited at the salon.

The first was purchased by the French state. The painter, so that the two works were not separated, donated the second. The wall decoration of the picardia museum. Two years later, he presented two other allegories, work and rest, which he failed to sell but arthur-stanislas diet. The architect of the picardia museum.

He then asked the new museum for the assignment of the concordia and bellum canvases, so that they could decorate the large gallery on the first floor. As a result, the painter donated the two canvases, work and rest, which decorated two of the walls of the large staircase. The success was at the rendezvous, another allegorical painting was commissioned at the puvis: ave picardia nutrix ("Hail, nursery picardia"), which came to decorate the wall of the landing of the staircase of honor.

And in 1882 the artist realized. ("games for the homeland"), which took place opposite ave picardia nutrix in the cage of the large staircase, in 1888.

Puvis de chavannes completed the decoration of the large staircase and the large gallery of the first floor with other allegorical canvases: study, contemplation, spinner, harvester.. this exceptional decoration on the thematic and stylistic plane is representative of the innovative treatment that chavannes puvis brought to the allegorical genre.

Of which it became at the end of the. Wall decorations with bets, lyon, marseille, poitiers and boston. To his little juggle shop. He quickly added a bigger one, to neuilly. In 1883 he painted a portrait of his companion, marie Cantacuzène, preserved at the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon.

It also served as a model for the salome of the take-off of Saint-jean-baptist, for the radegon of the town hall of poitiers. And for the holy geneviève of the betting pantheon. Puvis de chavannes made great wall decorations: at the palace longfield. To these were added three exceptional sets, that of the betting pantheon.

Where he dealt with the life of Saint Geneviève. Each of these sets gave rise to studies, copies, replicas, preparatory cartons that popularized the opening of puvis in particular abroad. Marseille, Greek colony (1869), Musée des beaux-arts de marseille. Pro patria ludus (1882), amiens.

The sacred wood dear to the arts and muses (1884), staircase of the museum of fine arts of Lyon. A painter recognized by the younger generation. By this immense decorative work, but also with easel paintings of symbolism. A novelist, he conquers the admiration of an entire generation, influencing not only idealists such as Odilon redone. To the young pablo picasso.

Of which many young people are indebted to him. President of the National Society of Fine Arts. In 1890 he redone with jean-louis-ernest meissonier.

The National Society of Fine Arts. Of which he is successively vice-president and president, following the death of Jean-louis-ernest meissonier.

Precursor in the arts, including for female artists, he is at the initiative of the French government. He was named Knight of the Legion of Honour.

In 1867, promoted officer in 1877, then commander in 1889. He was awarded the medal of honour in 1882.

Three months after the death of his wife, Cantacuzene. To his home in the. He was buried when he died in the old cemetery of neuilly-sur-seine. Then transferred in 2018 to the Champagnat Cemetery, in Saône-et-Loire, the cradle of the Chavannes Puvis family.

His abandoned chapel in 2000 was saved by the intervention of the fried historian of Berthier de grandry, who then lived in neuilly-sur-seine. Monument to chavannes (1924), bets. Commemorative plaque affixed to 89, avenue de villiers. Art critic and museum curator, director of the newspaper "l'artiste". Jean Baptiste marie alboize was born on 1 January 1990.

He goes up to bets after studying law. Towards the end of the 1870s, he became a friend of josephin peladan. Then enter as a critic to the magazine the artist. Of which he buys the shares to arsène houssaye. In 1881; alboize will run the magazine for more than twenty years.

From 1898, the magazine experienced difficulties, ceased to be monthly, and its number of readers collapsed. He remained during all these corresponding years of the southern magazine and began to value the work of the Jacque painter gamelin. In October 1892, he launched with benestied leonce. A quarterly publication, the album of painters-lithographes, in connection with the society of French lithograph artists.

1899 he was appointed knight of the Legion of Honour. With for godfather the composer paul veronge of the nux. Back in 1901, he was appointed chief curator of the château de Fontainebleau. He seems to abandon the magazine the artist who ceased to appear in 1902 and 1903.

On 4 March 1904, he died suddenly on the road linking the fountainbleau station and the castle. The artist published his obituary in a final issue, dated December 1904. And during the same month, it took place at the Drouot Hotel. Knight of the Legion of Honour.

Subject matter of this letter. + chavannes puvis tells alboize conservative de mussée à paris that he is a supporter of paid admissions to museums except Sundays and public holidays...

Don't hesitate to say in this fold that at this time when they were still free allowed some vagrants to serve as heaters and dormitories (= habitats); so at this time. "that with regard to the wash, the payment of the entrances, so minimal as it was, would have the advantage of ridding our galleries of the shameful and dirty public, of sluggards and languishes who regularly engulf him during the winter", to conclude that "it would be a good police measure at the same time as a good financial measure" link. Considered as a precursor of. He was one of the founders of the news. National Society of Fine Arts. I'm a chavann bed. Young girls by the sea. Paris, Musée d'orsay, 1879. And that reaches its peak in them. + 4 written pages & signature of p. + 1 letter & correspondence.

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number of pages: 4
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type: autograph, dedication
subtype: autograph on paper
country of manufacture: france
region: europe
theme: art