Study for Ave Picardia Nutrix

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824 - 1898)

British Museum

Study for figures in the painting 'Ave Picardia Nutrix' in the Tate. Left, full length draped woman bending, her right hand supporting a naked child, right, standing holding a basket of grapes above its head, behind, right, naked man with a water jar in his right hand. One of nineteen gifts to fifteen museums by Sir Michael Sadler through the Art Fund between 1921 and 1942.

• Medium: red chalk on yellow paper
• Dimensions: 64 x 38 cm
• ArtFunded in: 1921
• Presented by Sir Michael Sadler through The Art Fund

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