MASTERPIECES IN COLOUR EDITED BY M. HENRY ROUJON PUVIS DE CHAVANNES (1824-1898) _IN THE SAME SERIES_ REYNOLDS RUBENS VELASQUEZ HOLBEIN GREUZE BURNE-JONES TURNER LE BRUN BOTTICELLI CHARDIN ROMNEY MILLET REMBRANDT RAEBURN BELLINI SARGENT FRA ANGELICO CONSTABLE ROSSETTI MEMLING RAPHAEL FRAGONARD LEIGHTON DÜRER HOLMAN HUNT LAWRENCE TITIAN HOGARTH MILLAIS WATTEAU LUINI MURILLO FRANZ HALS WATTS CARLO DOLCI INGRES GAINSBOROUGH COROT TINTORETTO DELACROIX VAN DYCK FRA LIPPO LIPPI DA VINCI PUVIS DE CHAVANNES WHISTLER MEISSONIER MONTAGNA _IN PREPARATION_ GEROME BOUCHER VERONESE PERUGINO VAN EYCK [Illustration: PLATE I.--SAINT GENEVIEVE KEEPING WATCH OVER SLEEPING PARIS. Frontispiece (In the Panthéon, Paris) This composition, so great in its simplicity and so beautiful in execution, is the last work of the great artist. The model who posed for the saint watching over the city was Puvis de Chavannes' own wife. Both he and she died very shortly after its completion.] Puvis de Chavannes ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR [Illustration: IN SEMPITERNUM.] NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES CO. COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY [Illustration: April 1912] THE·PLIMPTON·PRESS [W·D·O] NORWOOD·MASS·U·S·A CONTENTS Page Introduction 11 The First Years 16 The Glorious Years 31 The Last Years 53 The Landscape Painter 66 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Plate I. Saint Genevieve keeping Watch over sleeping Paris Frontispiece In the Panthéon, Paris Page II. The Piety of Saint Genevieve 14 In the Panthéon, Paris III. The Poor Fisherman 24 In the Musée de Luxembourg, Paris IV. Ludus pro Patria 34 In the Museum, Amiens V. Repose 40 In the Museum, Amiens VI. The Sacred Wood dear to the Arts and the Muses 50 In the Museum, Amiens VII. Letters, Sciences, and Arts 60 In the Amphitheatre of the Sorbonne