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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, a sketch [by] Lily Lewis Rood / Ethel Reed – Historic Reproduction

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, a sketch [by] Lily Lewis Rood / Ethel Reed, 1895 — vintage poster
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, a sketch [by] Lily Lewis Rood / Ethel Reed, 1895. Vintage poster from the Books & Writers collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This vintage poster of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, a sketch [by] Lily Lewis Rood / Ethel Reed brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, a sketch [by] Lily Lewis Rood / Ethel Reed

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Here the subject is a book rather than a painting: this 1895 color poster promotes Lily Lewis Rood's sketch of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, the French muralist known for calm, pale classical scenes. Ethel Reed, a Boston designer active in the poster boom of the 1890s, made the design, and the record notes an inscription beginning "From," which is worth checking on the print itself. Puvis's large decorative murals in Paris had a strong influence on American artists of the period, and posters like this one show how that decorative sensibility carried over into commercial printing.

Created / published1895
Medium1 print (poster) : color.
GenreFrom Ethel Reed
NotesColor poster by Ethel Reed. Promotional goal: U.S. D41. 1895. Inscribed: From
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,107 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-173903

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