Tamaris, ca. 1886–87, Oil on canvas, 10 x 15 1/2 in. (25.4 x 39.4 cm), Paintings, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, Lyons 1824–1898 Paris), The small plants with pink blossoms surrounding the reclining nude suggest that the artist intended her to be a personification of the tamarisk, or tamarix, a shrub named after the valley of Tamaris in the Var, in southeastern France
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Tamaris, ca, 1886–87, Oil, canvas, 10 x 15 1/2, 25.4 39.4 cm, Paintings, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French, Lyons, 1824–1898, Paris, small, plants, pink blossoms, surrounding, reclining nude, suggest, artist intended, personification, tamarisk, tamarix, shrub, valley, Var, southeastern France
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