Art, literature & historyCompositional study for The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses
1883/84
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Black chalk on tan wove tracing paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 19.3 × 26.2 cm (7 5/8 × 10 3/8 in.); Secondary support: 21.2 × 27.8 cm (8 3/8 × 11 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2005.134
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Compositional study for The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and the Muses — Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. 1883/84.
Medium: Black chalk on tan wove tracing paper, laid down on ivory wove paper. Dimensions: Primary support: 19.3 × 26.2 cm (7 5/8 × 10 3/8 in.); Secondary support: 21.2 × 27.8 cm (8 3/8 × 11 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
This small study—the culmination of many preparatory sketches—is the final schema by Puvis de Chavannes for his highly influential painting The Sacred Grove, Beloved of the Arts and Muses , which is in the Art Institute’s collection.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.