Pierre Puvis De Chavannes
French, 1824–1898
Kneeling Youth
1834–1898
| Medium | black chalk on paper |
| Dimensions | Overall: 12 11/16 x 9 1/2 in. (32.2 x 24.1 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.1717 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Pierre Puvis De Chavannes, Kneeling Youth, 1834–1898, black chalk on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1717
Select Bibliography
New York: Durand-Ruel Galleries.. Drawings and Pastels by Chavannes, Degas, Renoir.. Dec. 1912..
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty: A Selection of Nineteenth Century French Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1965.
Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.
Provenance
Puvis de Chavannes (L. 2104; inventory stamp, after death of the artist); Durand-Ruel, Paris (if identical with drawing bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1917, entitled "Femme agenouillée"). *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.
