Le bois sacré cher aux arts et aux muses

Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1884-1889
Height:
93.0 cm  (36 5/8 in.)
Width:
231.0 cm  (90 15/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

Additional titles

The sacred grove, dear to the arts and to the muses

    Item location

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    Potter Palmer Collection[Museum inv. no.: 1922.445]

Description

Erato playing a lyre. (Compare the mural Le bois sacré at Lyon.)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lyre [3501]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Owens, Margareth Boyer. Art Institute of Chicago. RIdIM/RCMI inventory of music iconography, no. 2. Edited by Terence Ford (New York: Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1987) 345pa93. RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1684