A framed painting by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes entitled "The Poor Fisherman".

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (14 December 1824 to 24 October 1898) was a French painter, who became the cofounder and president of the Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts and whose work influenced many other artists. Though his reputation has since declined, he was a prominent painter in the early Third Republic. Emile Zola described his work as an art made of reason, passion, and will.