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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

1824 - 1898

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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ pyvi də ʃavan]; 14 December 1824 – 24 October 1898) was a French painter known for his mural painting, who came to be known as "the painter for France". He became the co-founder and president of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and his work influenced many other artists, notably Robert Genin, and he aided medallists by designs and suggestions for their works. Puvis de Chavannes was a prominent painter in the early Third Republic. Émile Zola described his work as "an art made of reason, passion, and will". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Puvis de Chavannes is the 229th most popular painter (up from 265th in 2019), the 765th most popular biography from France (up from 860th in 2019) and the 60th most popular French Painter.

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes is most famous for his paintings of classical themes, which he created in the late 19th century.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes ranks 229 out of 2,023. Before him are Piero di Cosimo, Raoul Dufy, Petrus Christus, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Jacopo Bellini, and Ferdinand Hodler. After him are Gerard van Honthorst, Alexej von Jawlensky, Domenichino, Zdzisław Beksiński, Gabriele Münter, and Pisanello.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes ranks 10. Before him are Anton Bruckner, Gustav Kirchhoff, Stonewall Jackson, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Maria Alexandrovna, and Eugène Boudin. After him are Paul Broca, Dayananda Saraswati, Pierre Janssen, Carl Reinecke, Wilkie Collins, and Marie Duplessis. Among people deceased in 1898, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes ranks 13. Before him are Charbel Makhlouf, Johann Jakob Balmer, Syed Ahmad Khan, Ivan Shishkin, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, and Eugène Boudin. After him are Ferdinand Cohn, Aubrey Beardsley, Charles Garnier, Félicien Rops, Theodor Fontane, and Eleanor Marx.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes ranks 765 out of 6,770. Before him are Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy (1766), Émile Loubet (1838), Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (1528), Maurice Chevalier (1888), Louis Le Vau (1612), and Gilbert Bécaud (1927). After him are David Guetta (1967), Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698), Bruno Latour (1947), Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), Louis Renault (1877), and Peter Waldo (1140).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes ranks 60. Before him are Eugène Boudin (1824), Francis Picabia (1879), Charles-François Daubigny (1817), Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659), Jan Gossaert (1478), and Raoul Dufy (1877). After him are Simon Vouet (1590), Alexandre Cabanel (1823), Antoine-Jean Gros (1771), Henri Fantin-Latour (1836), Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725), and Georges Rouault (1871).

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