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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1942.188
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People
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French (Lyon 1824 - 1898
Paris)
Title
Saint Genevieve as a Child at Prayer
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Study for Saint Genevieve at Prayer /
Reduced replica of "Saint Genevieve as a Child at
Prayer"
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1879
Culture
French
Physical Descriptions
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
134.3 x 76.2 cm (52 7/8 x 30 in.)
framed: 138.5 x 80.3 cm (54 1/2 x 31 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
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Signed: l.l.: P. Puvis/deCh.
inscription: below image, oil paint: DES SON AGE LE
PLVS TENDRE, SAINTE GENEVIEVE/DONNA, LES
MARQVES D'VNE PIETE ARDENTE/SANS CESSE EN
PRIERE, ELLE FRAPPAIT DE SVRPRISE/ET
D'ADMIRATION TOVS CEVX QVI LA VOYAIENT.
Provenance
Durand-Ruel, New York, NY. Hannah Edwards, Boston,
MA, (purchased 1924.)
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, (purchased 1941,) [through
Martin Birnbaum,] gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1942.
Winthrop paid $1500
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville
L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1942
Object Number
1942.188
Division
European and American Art
Contact
[email protected]
Publication History
Roger Ballu, "Les Peintures de M. Puvis de Chavannes
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au Panthéon", La Chronique des Arts et de la Curiosité
(June 9, 1877), no. 22, p. 212, p. 212
Charles-Phillippe, Marquis de Chennevières-Pointel,
"Souvenirs d'un directeur des beaux-arts: Les
décorations du Panthéon", L'Artiste (October 1884), pp.
180-204, pp. 257-276
Gustave Geffroy, La Vie Artistique (Paris, France, 18921903), vol. 5, p. 10
Marius Vachon, Puvis de Chavannes (Paris, 1895), pp.
107-120
Germain Bazin, "Puvis de Chavannes et l'action
morale", Bulletin de l'Union pour l'action morale
(December 1 1896), pp. 28-29, pp. 28-29
Paul Desjardins, "Pierre Puvis de Chavannes", Bulletin
de l'union pour l'action morale (November 15, 1898),
pp. 68-72, pp. 68-72
Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes, "Pensées et
réflexions, extraites des lettres de Puvis de
Chavannes", La Revue Encyclopédique (December 23,
1899), pp. 1080-1082, pp. 1080-1082
Marius Vachon, Puvis de Chavannes, un maître de ce
temps (Paris, France, 1900), pp. 185-197
Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes, "Lettres de Puvis de
Chavannes", La Revue de Paris (December 15, 1910),
10, pp. 673-692, pp. 688-692
"Loan of Paintings by Puvis de Chavannes", Bulletin of
the Metropolitan Museum of Art (June 1916), 11, pp.
134-135, p. 134
Antonin Gilbert Sertillanges, Sainte Geneviève (Paris,
1917), pp. 10-15
"Studies for the Childhood of St. Geneviève, Puvis de
Chavannes", Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago
(January 1924), 18, pp. 117-120, pp. 117-120
French Art of the Nineteenth Century, exh. cat., Fogg
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Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1942), listed p. 11
Aimée Brown Price, "Puvis de Chavannes: A Study of
the Easel Paintings and a Catalogue of the Painted
Work" (1972), pp. 430-457, 460-468
Richard J. Wattenmaker, Puvis de Chavannes and the
Modern Tradition, exh. cat., Art Gallery of Ontario
(Toronto, Ontario, 1976), pp. 162-177
Louise d'Argencourt, Puvis de Chavannes, exh. cat.,
National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Canada, 1977), pp.
132-139
Marie-Christine Boucher, Catalogue des dessins et
peintures de Puvis de Chavannes, exh. cat., Musée du
Petit Palais (Paris, France, 1979), p. 64
Barry Bergdoll, "Le Panthéon. Sainte Geneviève au XIXe
siècle.", Le Panthéon: Symbole des révolutions (1989),
pp. 229-230, pp. 229-230
Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900
in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue
including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum ,
Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA,
1990), p. 80, color plate; pp. 126, 247, repr. b/w cat. no.
352
Ronald de Leeuw, "De Heilige Genevieve als Kind in
Gebed", Vereniging Rembrandt (Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, Summer 1993), no. 2, p. 28
Ronald de Leeuw, "Pierre Puvis de Chavannes: Two
recent acquisitions", Van Gogh Bulletin, Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1993), p. 18
Frans von Burkom, "Puvis de Chavannes Ste. Geneviève
als kind, ingebed", Jong Holland (1993), 14, no. 4, pp.
15-19, pp. 15-19
One Hundred Saints, A Bulfinch Press Book, Little,
Brown and Co. (Boston, MA and New York, NY, 1993),
repr. in color, p. 133
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Marie-Christine Boucher, Les Dessins de Puvis de
Chavannes du Musée de Picardie, exh. cat. (Amiens,
France, 1994), pp. 48-49
Aimée Brown Price, Pierre Puvis de Chavanne, exh.
cat., Rizzoli (New York, NY, 1994), pp. 18, 26, 147-149,
repr.
Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond, "L'Enfance de SainteGeneviève: Une affiche de Puvis de Chavannes au
service de 'l'Union pour l'action morale'", La Revue de
l'art (1995), pp. 63-74, pp. 63-68, 71
Aimée Brown Price, "Pierre Puvis de Chavannes: Saint
Genevieve as a Child in Prayer", Van Gogh Museum
Journal (1995), pp. 118-133, pp. 118-121, 124-133
Sarah Carr-Gomm, The Secret Language of Art,
Duncan Baird Publishers (London, England, 2001), p.
172, detail repr.
Chikashi Kitazaki, ed., Between Reality and Dreams:
Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the
Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum , exh. cat.,
National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, Japan, 2002),
pp. 88-89, cat. #11, color repr.
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-
Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L.
Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The
Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press
(New York, NY, 2003), no. 107, pp. 267-270, repr. in
color
Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler,
Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat.,
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des
Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 107, pp.
278-279, repr. in color
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Exhibition History
Exposition de tableaux, pastels, dessins [par M. Puvis
de Chavannes], Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 01/01/1887
- 10/31/1887; Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York,
11/01/1887 - 12/31/1887
French Art of the Nineteenth Century, Fogg Art
Museum, Cambridge, 07/01/1942 - 08/31/1942
Sublimations: Art and Sensuality in the 19th Century,
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge,
07/13/1996 - 07/21/2002
Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century
British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of
the Fogg Art Museum , National Museum of Western
Art, Tokyo, 09/14/2002 - 12/08/2002
A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and
Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection,
Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights
from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard
University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum,
Cambridge, 04/16/2004
This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff
but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently
revised and enhanced. For more information please
contact the Division of European and American Art at
[email protected]
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