Poor Fisherman by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, oil on canvas c. 1881, depicts a fisherman in his boat gazing penitently at his fishing basket in the water, his infant sleeping in the boat behind him amid a grey landscape. The insistently flattened shapes, simplified palette and muted tonal colors recall the compositions of Gauguin, and the manner and subject matter a likely inspiration for the early 20th century modernists.
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824 - 1898) was a French painter and one of the most widely admired and influential artists during the latter 19th century. Puvis studied briefly under Delacroix and Thomas Couture and at the Académie des Beaux Arts before gaining wide recognition exhibiting in the Paris Salon. His many public and private mural commissions canonized Puvis as the "painter for France", bringing many accolades from across the worlds of art and literature. His work is part of the French Symbolist movement, spanning the period between Romanticism and the rise of Modernism. Though Puvis’ reputation has diminished greatly, the artist influenced countless others including Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, and left an unmistakable impression on the 20th century Modernists.
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