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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Two Studies of a Young Woman before 1898 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Study of a Kneeling Man before 1898 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Study of Two Standing Figures ca. 1880 drawing Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Study of a Sleeping Woman ca. 1867 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
"No doubt this second hypothesis would never have been so bold as to formulate in so many words that Albertine could have had intimate relations with Mlle Vinteuil and her friend. And yet, when I was overwhelmed by the invasion of those terrible tidings, as the train slowed down before stopping at Parville station, it was the second hypothesis that had already been proved correct."
– Marcel Proust, from Albertine Disparue (1925), translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff as The Sweet Cheat Gone (1930)
"Of course, this alternative version would never have made so bold as to overtly formulate the theory that Albertine might have had a relationship with Mlle Vinteuil and her female friend. And yet, when I was overwhelmed with this terrible news just as we were drawing into the station at Incarville, it was the second hypothesis that had been confirmed."
– Marcel Proust, from Albertine Disparue (1925), translated by Peter Collier as The Fugitive (2002)
(the more recent translator, Peter Collier, in the passage directly above, does not hesitate boldly to split an infinitive [to overtly formulate] – strongly implying that if Proust himself were writing in English in the 21st century, he too would be splitting infinitives – when in fact and on the contrary, Proust cannot be imagined in any century or in any language selecting any construction so obtrusively clunky)
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Vanitas of Venus: Parisian Virtues ca. 1890 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Return from the Hunt 1859 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Orpheus 1883 drawing Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Head of a Woman ca. 1884-89 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Hand of Banner Bearer before 1898 drawing Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Figure playing a Lyre ca. 1883-84 drawing Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Figure holding a Violin before 1898 drawing Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Figure Studies before 1898 drawing Yale University Art Gallery |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Figure raising a Fallen Figure ca. 1879 drawing Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Figure Study 1886-87 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |