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The Fisherman's Family, 1887. Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas · 82.5 × 71.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Fisherman's Family
- Artist
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, 1824–1898)
- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 82.5 × 71.8 cm (32 1/2 × 28 1/4 in.); Framed: 102.9 × 91.4 × 10.2 cm (40 1/2 × 36 × 4 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1824–1898
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.