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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Inter artes et naturam (Between Art and Nature)

ca. 1890–95
Oil on canvas
40.3 × 113.7 cm (15.9 × 44.8 in)

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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