Woman with a Bowl and a Sheaf of Grain

c. 1873

Medium	black chalk on blue-gray paper
Dimensions	Overall: 12 5/16 x 8 11/16 in. (31.3 x 22 cm)
Object Number	1955.1721
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Pierre Puvis De Chavannes, Woman with a Bowl and a Sheaf of Grain, c. 1873, black chalk on blue-gray paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1721

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 (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1917). *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.