Pierre Puvis de Chavannes: Hope
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Artist |
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Title |
Hope |
Object type |
painting ![Edit this at Wikidata](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png) |
Genre |
allegory ![Edit this at Wikidata](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png) |
Description |
English: In the wake of the catastrophic Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, the artist painted this picture of a young woman seated in a devastated landscape holding an oak twig as a symbol of hope for the nation's recovery from war and deprivation. This painting was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1872. A smaller variant, showing the subject nude, is at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Puvis de Chavannes was one of the most original artists of his generation. His utopian visions, in which the figures seem to float in a dream-like landscape, served as a point of departure for many younger artists, such as Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) and Henri Matisse (1869-1954). |
Date |
1872 date QS:P571,+1872-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
Dimensions |
height: 102.5 cm (40.3 in); width: 129.5 cm (50.9 in) dimensions QS:P2048,102.5U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,129.5U174728 ; Framed height: 135.3 cm (53.2 in); width: 161.3 cm (63.5 in); depth: 13.3 cm (5.2 in)dimensions QS:P2048,135.3U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,161.3U174728 dimensions QS:P5524,13.3U174728 ; Framed H in travel frame without build-up: 51 1/4 x W: 61 7/8 x D: 2 in. (130.18 x 157.16 x 5.08 cm) |
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q210081 |
Accession number |
37.156 |
Place of creation |
France |
Object history |
- Durand-Ruel, Paris, prior to 1872 Salon, by purchase [from the artist]
- Patou, Paris [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase
- Durand-Ruel [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase
- Erwin Davis, New York, 1890, by purchase
- E. F. Miliken Sale, New York, February 14, 1902, no. 25
- 1902: purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore
- 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
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Exhibition history |
Salon, 1872 ; Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach; Royal Academy of Arts, London; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton. 2000-2002. Verso l'arte moderna: da Puvis de Chavannes a Matisse e Picasso. Palazzo Grassi, Venice. 2002. A Magnificent Age: Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2002-2004. 19th Century Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin. 2010-2011. Manet, Monet, and the Gare Saint-Lazare. National Gallery of Art, Washington. 1998. Vive la France! French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1999-2000. |
Credit line |
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1902 |
Inscriptions |
Date and signature bottom left:
1872 / P. Purvis de Chavannes
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References |
Walters Art Museum artwork ID: 8084 ![Edit this at Wikidata](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png) |
Source |
Walters Art Museum: Home page Info about artwork |
Permission (Reusing this file) |
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