Pretty 1892 Puvis de Chavannes Limited Edition Etching “The Spinner” Framed COA$474.00
Pretty 1892 Puvis de Chavannes Limited Edition Etching “The Spinner” Framed COA
$474.00
Artist: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824 – 1898)
Title: La Fileuse (The Spinner)
Medium: Hand Pulled Copper plate etching with drypoint, printed in Bistre ink, on cream laid paper after the original by Auguste Marie Lauzet (1865 – 1898) .
Year: 1892
Edition: Limited to only 50 examples.
Dimensions: Plate size 4 1/8 x 6 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 14 1/8 x 16 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (14 December 1824 – 24 October 1898) was a French painter best known for his mural painting, who came to be known as ‘the painter for France’. He became the co-founder and president of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and his work influenced many other artists, notably Robert Genin. Puvis de Chavannes was a prominent painter in the early Third Republic. Émile Zola described his work as “an art made of reason, passion, and will”.
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