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Painter, born in Lyon, SC France. He is best known for his murals on public buildings, notably of the life of St Geneviève in the Panthéon, Paris, and the large allegorical works such as ‘Work’ and ‘Peace’ on the staircase of the Musée de Picardie, Amiens.

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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, (December 14, 1824 – October 24, 1898) was a French painter.

He was born Pierre Cécile Puvis de Chavannes in Lyon, Rhône, France.

He is noted for painting murals, several of which can be seen at the Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) in Paris and Poitiers, the Sorbonne, and the Paris Panthéon, as well as in the United States at the Boston, Massachusetts Public Library. Some of them are:

Death and the Maiden The Dream The Poor Fisherman Vigilance The Meditation Mary Magdalene at St Baume Saint Genoveva Young Girls at the Seaside Mad Woman at the Edge of the Sea Hope Kneeling nude woman, viewed from back

He was president and co-founder in 1890 of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (National Society of Fine Arts).

Prix Puvis de Chavannes (Puvis de Chavannes prize)

Awarded from 1926 by the National Society of Fine Arts (Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts), the Prix Puvis de Chavannes consists in a retrospective exhibition of the main works of the prizewinning artist, in Paris.

Most famous awarded painters: 1941: Wilhem Van Hasselt, 1944: Jean Gabriel Domergue, 1952: Tristan Klingsor, 1955: Georges Delplanque, 1957: Albert Decaris, 1958: Jean Picard Le Doux, 1963: Maurice Boitel*, 1966: Pierre Gaillardot, 1968:Pierre-Henry, 1969:Louis Vuillermoz, 1970: Daniel du Janerand, 1971: Jean-Pierre Alaux;