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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

La charité (Charity)

1894

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  • Artist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, 1824–1898)
  • Title La charité (Charity)
  • Date 1894
  • Medium Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions unframed | 36 3/8 x 29 1/8 in.
  • Credit line University purchase, Bixby Fund, 1908
  • Object number WU 2105

Picasso: Painting the Blue Period
Art Gallery of Ontario, 10/06/2021 - 01/23/2022
The Phillips Collection, 02/26/2022 - 06/12/2022

Picasso: Painting the Blue Period
The Phillips Collection (Washington, DC), 10/24/2020 - 01/24/2021

Real / Radical / Psychological: The Collection on Display
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/09/2016 - 01/15/2017

Battle of Ideal vs. Real: The Figure in Nineteenth-Century Art
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 05/06/2016 - 07/31/2016

Eating Fire: Picasso's Discovery of Paris
Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 02/18/2011 - 05/30/2011
Devorar París (Feasting on Paris): Picasso 1900–1907, Museu Picasso de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain), 06/29/2011 - 10/16/2011

Collecting Patterns
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/05/2003 - 12/07/2003

From Puvis de Chavannes to Matisse and Picasso: Toward Modern Art
Palazzo Grassi (Venice, Italy), 02/10/2002 - 06/16/2002

Beginnings: The Taste of the Founders
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/21/2000 - 03/19/2000

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 02/25/1994 - 05/29/1994

Nineteenth Century Art from the Collection
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/19/1986 - 04/01/1986

Diversity in the Salon: Late 19th-Century French Academic Art
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 06/02/1985 - 08/11/1985

Nature and the Figure
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/09/1983 - 03/06/1983

Parsons Collection
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 05/15/1983 - 08/21/1983

Puvis de Chvannes
National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Canada), 11/01/1976 - 02/01/1977
Musée du Louvre (Paris, France), 03/01/1977 - 05/01/1977

Puvis de Chavannes and the Modern Tradition
Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Ontario), 09/01/1975 - 12/01/1975

Salon de Resserre: Selections of European and American Art of the Nineteenth Century from the Washington University Collections
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 02/01/1970 - 03/06/1970

Opening Exhibition of Mark C. Steinberg Memorial Hall
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 04/29/1960

First Annual Exhibition
Carnegie Museum of Art, 11/05/1896 - 01/01/1897

1908
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris

Inscription [Washington University label on backing]

Inscription [LR, canvas, written in brown-grey paint:] 94. P. Puvis de Chavannes

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