Puvis de Chavannes, PIERRE, a painter of marked individuality, sometimes said to belong to the 'decorative school,' was born at Lyons, 14th December 1824. See a work by Vachon (1895).
Puvis de Chavannes
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 501
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