Puvis de Chavannes

"Puvis de Chavannes" by François Crastre is a biography of a French painter known for his mural paintings. He came to be known as «the painter for France». Puvis de Chavannes was a prominent painter in the early Third Republic. Émile Zola described his work as «an art made of reason, passion, and will». He experienced the bitter pangs of injustice, the hostility of ignorance, the discouragement of finding himself misunderstood.