$25,400
Estimate: $5,000 - $8,000
What Do You See? The Collection of Sidney Rothberg, Part I
Auction: February 27, 2024 at 12 PM ET
Oil, charcoal and wash on canvas
13 ¾ x 20 7/8 in. (34.9 x 53cm)
Executed circa 1897-1898.
The Artist.
By descent in the Puvis de Chavannes family.
Sotheby's, Monaco, sale of December 3, 1989, lot 565.
Acquired directly from the above sale.
The Collection of Sidney Rothberg, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Aimée Brown Price, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work, Vol. II, Yale University, New Haven and London, 2010, p. 412, no. 445 (not illustrated).
This small preparatory oil study is essentially a drawing for the section of the late Panthéon frieze that includes Saint Loup (Lupus) and Attila at its center and a horse at right. It is more complete in its designation of figures at far right and left than is the large, unfinished cartoon (now in Musée d'Orsay, Paris). A previous title identified the female figure as Radegundus, who is here taking the veil to become a nun.