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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Woman on the Seashore 1887 oil on paper, mounted on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Women on the Seashore 1879 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Summer 1891 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art (Ohio) |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Seated Female Figure 1889 pastel Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Girl by the Sea ca. 1882 oil on canvas Neue Pinakothek, Munich |
"But what struck me most forcibly was how little, during this visit, I lived over again my childish years, how little I desired to see Combray, how meagre and ugly I thought the Vivonne. But where Gilberte made some of the things come true that I had imagined about the Méséglise way was during one of those walks which, after all, were nocturnal even if we took them before dinner – for she dined so late. Before descending into the mystery of a perfect and profound valley carpeted with moonlight, we stopped for a moment, like two insects about to plunge into the blue calyx of a flower."
– Marcel Proust, from Albertine Disparue (1925), translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff as The Sweet Cheat Gone (1930)
"But what struck me the most was how little, during this stay, I relived my former years, how little I wanted to revisit Combray, and how narrow and ugly I found the Vivonne. Yet it was during one of those quasi-nocturnal albeit pre-prandial walks – since she dined so late! – that she did authenticate for me the fantasies which I had formed around the way to Méséglise. Just as we were about to enter a mysteriously smooth and deep valley bathed in moonlight, we stopped for a moment, like two insects about to dive into the depths of a blue-tinted calyx."
– Marcel Proust, from Albertine Disparue (1925), translated by Peter Collier as The Fugitive (2002)
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Standing Male Nude ca. 1879 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Marseilles - Greek Colony ca. 1868-69 oil on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Marseilles - Gateway to the Orient ca. 1868-69 oil on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Saint Genevieve as a Child at Prayer 1879 oil on canvas Harvard Art Museums |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes War 1867 oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes The Aftermath of War ca. 1870-75 watercolor Morgan Library, New York |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Tamaris ca. 1886-87 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Self-portrait 1887 oil on canvas Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Ethel Reed Pierre Puvis de Chavannes - A Sketch by Lily Lewis Rood 1895 lithographic poster Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |