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Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre 1824-98
French decorative, symbolic painter
Born in Lyons, he painted murals of the life of St Geneviève (1898) which may be seen in the Panthéon, Paris, and large allegorical works such as Work and Peace, on the staircase of the Musée de Picardie, Amiens. He created striking new images with paintings such as The Poor Fisherman (1881, Musée d'Orsay, Paris), which influenced younger painters and sculptors, such as Georges Seurat and Aristide Maillol, while his decorative style influenced Paul Gauguin and Odilon Redon.
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