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Artist:Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, Lyons 1824–1898 Paris)
Date:ca. 1864
Medium:Oil on paper, laid down on canvas
Dimensions:51 x 99 1/4 in. (129.5 x 252.1 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1926
Men grind grain while citizens of all ages prepare apple cider, one of the traditional beverages of the northern French province of Picardy. This painting and The River (on view nearby) are studies for the left and right sides of Puvis’s mural Ave Picardia Nutrix (Hail, Picardy, the Nourisher). Made for the newly constructed Musée de Picardie in Amiens in 1864, the paintings celebrate the region’s abundant natural resources and its idealized, distant past. Puvis’s decorations for the museum launched his career as a preeminent painter of murals for state buildings in France.
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