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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Study for the Mother in The Fisherman's Family

c. 1875
black and white chalk with stumping, squared in black chalk

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes also worked out the composition of the female figure seen in this drawing through a more developed study now in the collection of the Musée Saint-Nazaire in Bourbon-Lancy, France.

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