Normandie (Normandy)
Medium
lithograph in printed in brown on Japan paper
Dimensions
image: 46.3 × 39.2 cm (18 1/4 × 15 7/16 in.) sheet: 55.3 × 43.6 cm (21 3/4 × 17 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1946.21.154
Art Historical Context
**Normandie (Normandy)**, a captivating 1893 lithograph by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, invites visitors to explore the poetic essence of France's Normandy region. Printed in soft brown ink on fine Japan paper—a luxurious, thin sheet prized for its absorbency and subtle texture—this work measures 46.3 × 39.2 cm (image) and exemplifies late 19th-century printmaking elegance. Housed in the National Gallery of Art's Rosenwald Collection (Department CG-E), it reflects Puvis's mastery in translating his vision to a reproducible medium. Puvis de Chavannes (1824–1898), a pivotal French Symbolist, was ...
About the Artist
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · 1824–1898
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824–1898) was a French painter who became the foremost muralist of nineteenth-century France and a crucial bridge between academic tradition and modernism. Born in Lyon to a prosperous family, he studied briefly with Henri Scheffer and Thomas Couture in Paris and traveled to Italy, where the frescoes of the Italian Renaissance made a lasting impression on his artistic v...