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A work made of black chalk on tan wove tracing paper, laid down on ivory wove paper.

Compositional study for The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses

1883/84

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes French, 1824-1898

France

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.

Black chalk on tan wove tracing paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

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