\paperw4995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \f1 \ATXsh255 French painter. \ATXsh4607 \par
\ATXsh255 He came under the influence of ChassΘriau, who proposed a revival of the art of the pri
mitives filtered through IngresÆs classicism. His two journeys to Italy, where he had an opportunity to study the works of the Florentine artists of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the Venetians of the sixteenth century, and the Bolognese of the
seventeenth century, were influential in his development. His interest in the art of the past is revealed by the cycle of pictures painted between 1880 and 1882 for the Amiens Museum (\i Pietα\i0 , Moscow, Pushkin Museum). Even his individual canvases favo
r an allegorical language and themes of a universal character (\i The Poor Fisherman\i0 , 1881, Paris, MusΘe dÆOrsay). PuvisÆs work considerably influenced the emerging current of Symbolism and was studied with interest by the Nabis, Hodler, and Picasso.\ATXsh4607
