In the Heather by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
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In the Heather

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · 1896

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Sold by the artist to Durand-Ruel, October 13, 1896 [according to Price 2010]; sold to Stanley McCormick (died 1947), November 4, 1896 [according to Price 2010]; his widow Katharine Dexter McCormick (died 1967); bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1968.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • London, Hayward Gallery, French Symbolist Painters: Moreau, Puvis de Chavannes, Redon and Their Followers, June 7–July 23, 1972, cat. 232; traveled to Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, August 9–September 17, 1972.

Literature

Published references

  • René Gimpel, Journal d’un collectionneur (Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1963), p. 232; translated (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966), p. 222; reprinted (Paris: Hermann, 2011, p. 328.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1967–1968 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1968), p. 20.
  • John H. Neff, “Puvis de Chavannes: Three Easel Paintings,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 4 (1969), pp. 68, 78, 79–80, 85 n. 48, fig. 12.
  • Aimée Brown Price, “Puvis de Chavannes: A Study of the Easel Paintings and A Catalogue of the Painted Works,” (Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1972), p. 654–55, no. 358.
  • Louise d’Argencourt, Puvis de Chavannes: 1824–1898, exh. cat. (Paris: Grand Palais, 1977), p. 237 under no. 214; translated (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1977), p. 235.
  • Russell T. Clement, Four French Symbolists: A Sourcebook on Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, and Maurice Denis (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996), p. 48.
  • Aimée Brown Price, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010), vol. 1, p. 135; vol. 2 pp. 393–94, cat. 428.

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