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Artists who influenced Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
The foremost French mural painter of the second half of the 19th century. He decorated many public buildings in France (for example, the Panthéon, the Sorbonne, and the Hôtel de Ville, all in Paris) and also Boston Public Library. His paintings were done on canvas and then affixed to the walls (marouflage), but their pale colors imitated the effect of fresco. He had only modest success early in hi ... more (Google)Artists who were influenced by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Eugène Delacroix

Poor Fisherman
(Musée d'Orsay)

Shepherd's Song
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Edgar Degas

Honoré Daumier

Poor Fisherman (study)
(Pushkin Museum)

Homer, Epic Poetry
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Paul Gauguin

Thomas Couture
  
Maurice Prendergast

Théodore Chassériau
  
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec