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TITLE:
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Ludus Pro Patria
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CATEGORY:
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Paintings
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MATERIALS:
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Oil on canvas
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MARKINGS:
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Signed lower-left: Puvis de Chavannes
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SIZE:
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h: 94 x w: 280 cm / h: 37 x w: 110.2 in
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PRICE*:
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DESCRIPTION:
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In the original frame, chosen by the artist.
The whereabouts of this painting, called an ‘esquisse’ by Durand-Ruel in 1887 for Ludus Pro Patria in the Musée de Picardie, Amiens, was unknown to Puvis de Chavannes scholars until its re-discovery in 2010. The canvas was cut into two parts by the artist; the smaller right-hand fragment hangs today in the Toledo Museum of Art, USA.
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PROVENANCE:
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Lazare Weiller; by descent.
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LITERATURE:
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(select) : A. Michel, 'Exposition de M. Puvis de Chavannes,' Gazette des beaux-arts (1888); J. Buisson, 'Puvis de Chavannes, Souvenirs Intimes,' Gazette des beaux-arts (1899); Marius Vachon, Puvis de Chavannes (1900); Camille Mauclair, Puvis de Chavannes, Paris (1928); The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo (1976); Louise d'Argencourt, Puvis de Chavannes, 1824–1898, Exh. cat., Grand Palais, Paris and Ottawa (1977); Aimée Brown Price, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Exh. cat., Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, (1994); From Puvis de Chavannes to Matisse and Picasso: Toward Modern Art, Exh. cat. Palazzo Grassi, Venice (2002) ; Louise d'Argencourt, Puvis de Chavannes: Une voie singulière au siècle de l'Impressionnisme, Exh. cat., Musée de Picardie. Amiens (2005); Aimée Brown Price, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, New Haven (2010).
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EXHIBITION HISTORY:
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(select): Paris, Durand-Ruel, 1887, no. 35 as Pro Patria Ludus; Paris, Durand-Ruel, 'Exposition de tableaux, esquisses & dessins de Puvis de Chavannes,' June–July 1899, as Ludus pro Patria ; Paris, Hotel Drouot, November 1901, no. 39 as Ludus pro Patria.
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