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Study for Ave Picardia Nutrix

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

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.

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Date supported

1921

Medium and material

Red chalk on yellow paper

Dimensions

64 x 38 cm

Gifted by

Sir Michael Sadler

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