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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Le Repos (Rest) ca. 1863 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes The River (sketch) ca. 1864 oil on paper, mounted on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Autumn (sketch) 1864 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes The Wine Press ca. 1865 oil on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes La Fantaisie (Fantasy) 1866 oil on canvas Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Japan |
"These leaves, I did not merely behold them with the eyes of my memory, they interested me, touched me, like those purely descriptive pages into which an artist, to make them more complete, introduces a fiction, a whole romance; and this work of nature thus assumed the sole charm of melancholy which was capable of reaching my heart."
– Marcel Proust, from Albertine Disparue (1925), translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff as The Sweet Cheat Gone (1930)
"I was not content to contemplate this foliage merely with the eyes of memory. It interested and moved me as do those purely descriptive pages in whose midst an artist, in order to make them more complete, introduces something fictional or a whole novel; and thus this natural scene took on the only melancholy charm which could touch my heart."
– Marcel Proust, from Albertine Disparue (1925), translated by Peter Collier as The Fugitive (2002)
(What Scott Moncrieff achieved was a fair approximation of Proust's native rhythm, a continuous glide down the smooth stream of consciousness. Later renderers into English, erecting their signposts every few paces, distrust their readers and break up that flow. Even when their claim to greater verbal accuracy is valid, their production remains too dull and jarring to engage attention, much less belief.)
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes La Paix (Peace) 1867 oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Woodcutters (sketch) ca. 1871-73 oil on paper, mounted on canvas San Antonio Museum of Art (Texas) |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Summer 1873 watercolor and gouache Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Summer ca. 1873 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Shepherds' Song 1881 oil on canvas Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Doux Pays (Pleasant Land) 1882 oil on canvas Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Apple Harvest ca. 1890 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes La Gardeuse de Chèvres (Tender of Goats) 1893 oil on canvas Musée des Ursulines de Mâcon |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes In the Heather 1896 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |