# Peace and War [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PUVIS DE CHAVANNES, Pierre-Cécile]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 109 x 149 cm \(each\) ## Commentary Pursuing his vocation as a decorator, in 1861 Puvis exhibited two large murals \(each measuring 3.40 x 5.55 m\), Peace and War, for which he received the second-class medal in the history section. Peace was purchased by the State, and, in order not to separate the two canvases, Puvis donated War. Still without any commissions, he produced the complement to this group, Work and Repose, which he exhibited at the Salon of 1863. Arthur-Stanislas Diet, architect of the Musée Napoléon \(now Musée de Picardie\) at Amiens, subsequently approached Puvis to obtain the two series for the museum. The first group was loaned by the State, and the second was donated by Puvis. The paintings in Philadelphia are reduced versions of the large canvases at Amiens. ## Related artworks - [Christian Inspiration]() - [Hope]() - [Hope]() - [Peace]() - [The Beheading of St John the Baptist]() - [The Poor Fisherman]() - [The Shepherd's Song]() - [War]() - [Woman on the Beach]() - [Young Women on the Seashore]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()