PIERRE PUVIS DE CHAVANNES. 1824-1898

212 THE POOR FISHERMAN. Sketch. 1879

Oil on canvas. 66 X 91 cm. Inv. No 3324 Signed and dated lower right: P. Puvis de Ch. 79 The picture represents a sketch for the similarly entitled composition of 1831, now in Ths Louvre, Paris (No RF 506).

Provenance: 1891—1900 The P. Durand-Ruel Collection, Paris; 1900—18 The S. Shchukin Collection, Moscow; 1918 — 48 The Museum of Modern Western

Art, Moscow; since 1948 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Exhibitions: 1955 Moscow, Cat., p. 53; 1956 Leningrad, Cat., p. 51; 1960 Moscow, Cat., p. 30 Bibliography: Кат. собр. С. Щукина 1913, No 185, pp. 40—41; Тугендхольд 1914, p. 44, ill. p. 8; Пер-цов 1921, No 185, p. 114; Тугендхольд 1923, p. 60, ill. p. 59; Кат. ГМНЗИ 1928, No 469; Reau 1929, No 1054

212 THE POOR FISHERMAN. Sketch. 1879