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The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · 1884–89
Provenance
Ownership history
- Durand-Ruel, New York and Paris, by 1890 [this and the following according to Durand-Ruel, stock book, Potter Palmer: "Tableaux achetés à Durand-Ruel, New York," no. 965/674; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Potter Palmer and Bertha Honoré Palmer (died 1918), Chicago, March 1, 1890 [letter from Durand-Ruel to W.M.R. French, Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 23, 1890; copy in curatorial object file]; by descent to their sons, Honoré and Potter Palmer, Jr.; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- London, National Gallery, After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art, Mar. 25 - Aug. 13, 2023, cat. 1; Moscow, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Sep. 25, 2023 - Jan. 29, 2024 [London only].
Literature
Published references
- Aimée Brown-Price, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes vol. 2: Catalogue Raisonne of the Painted Work (New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2010), 280–81 pl. 127, 182 cat. 304.
- Maryanne Stevens, After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art, exh. cat. (London: National Gallery Global; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023), 32 cat. 1, 66, 67-68 (ill).
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