Seated Figure: Study for “A Vision of Antiquity”, 1883–85, Fabricated black crayon, squared, 14 5/8 x 10 1/4 in. (37.2 x 26 cm), Drawings, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, Lyons 1824–1898 Paris), The flattening and simplification of form in this drawing is in keeping with the aesthetic Puvis developed for his classicizing murals in the 1880s. This contemplative female figure appears draped in A Vision of Antiquity (1885), one of four murals the artist completed for the staircase of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in his hometown of Lyon
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