Two Flying Figures with a Lyre (Study for The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses)
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
1878–1898
- Medium
- Graphite and charcoal, heightened with touches of white chalk, on tan tracing paper, squared in charcoal, laid down on cream wood pulp laminate board
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 27.2 × 47.7 cm (10 3/4 × 18 13/16 in.); Secondary support: 30.7 × 51 cm (12 1/8 × 20 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- graphite
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
squaring (transferring technique)drawings (visual works)chalk sticksgraphitewhite chalkprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)charcoal
About
Study for the painting Le Bois Sacre, c.1883 Graphite and charcoal, heightened with touches of white chalk on tan tracing paper squared in charcoal, laid down on cream cardboard
