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Study for the Hemicycle of the Sorbonne (The Letters, Sciences, and Arts)
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1824–1898; born Lyon, France; died Paris
x1948-488
Information
Title
Study for the Hemicycle of the Sorbonne (The Letters, Sciences, and Arts)
Medium
Black chalk
Dimensions
32.6 x 36.8 cm. (12 13/16 x 14 1/2 in.)
mount: 33 × 37 cm. (13 × 14 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
Object Number
x1948-488
Signatures
Artist stamp, lower right: P.P.C. [Lugt 2104]
Culture
Materials
Techniques
Subject
Le Garrec;
1929, purchased by Dan Fellows Platt;
Bequeathed to the Princeton University Art Museum
- William Seitz, "Some Studies by Puvis de Chavannes," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 10, no. 2 (1951): 10–22., fig. 1, p. 12 (illus.)
- 19th and 20th century French drawings from the Art Museum, Princeton University: an introduction, (Princeton, NJ: Distributed by Princeton University Press, 1972)., pp. 54, 90, cat. no. 14; p. 55 (illus.)
