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Visions For The Viewer: The Influence Of Two Unique Easel Paintings On The Late Murals Of Pierre Puvis De Chavannes, Geoffrey Neil David Thomas

Theses and Dissertations

While certainly not lost to the history of art, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes has never enjoyed the status of the titans of the modern canon who openly expressed their indebtedness to him. Georges Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and so many other artists known to the general public the world over paid tribute to the artist once dubbed “The Painter of France” at a banquet held in his honor to coincide with a retrospective exhibition on the occasion of his seventieth birthday.

Interestingly enough, defenders of the old, academic guard, such as William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Alexandre Cabanel, and Jean-Léon Gérôme …