Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Works Online
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Original works by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
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Detailed information about the artist and his works
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Study for 'Le Retour de l' Engant prodigue'
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Allegory of Life, ca.1873
Woman on the Beach, 1887
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Page forward for numerous works on paper by Puvis de Chavannes
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Commentary on 6 paintings by Puvis de Chavannes
Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris
Many works by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
Paintings collection online
National Gallery, London, UK
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
3 works by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
The Benefits of Peace
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)
4 works online
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
The Bathers
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
4 works by or related to the artist
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
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Concordia, 1860-61
The Prodigal Son
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
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Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)
Le Bois sacré cher aux arts et aux muses
Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
4 works online
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Poor Fisherman
New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
Study for 'Le Bois Sacre' (The Sacred Wood)
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France (in French)
Le Sommeil
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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3 works by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes online
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Saint Geneviève as a Child, 1876
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Charity
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
Art Market:
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Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes in the Art Renewal Center
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes in the Artchive
The Poor Fisherman
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Der Luftballon
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes at CGFA
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes at The Athenaeum 
5 works online by Puvis
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes at The Athenaeum
La Fee des Greves, ca.1887
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes in the Web Gallery of Art
WebMuseum
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
ArtMagick
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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California State University WorldImages Database
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
USC Annenberg School for Communication
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
Salon Acquisitions in France by the Service des Beaux-Arts, 1864-1901 (in French)
(Vintage documentation; reproductions are monochrome but usually quite large)
Geneviève dans sa pieuse sollicitude veille sur la ville endormie, from the Salon of 1898
The Modernist Journals Project
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Pierre Puvis de Chavannes 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
The London Evening Standard
"The artist and the saint", 2002 article by Brian Sewell
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