NINETEENTH CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL Bust of a Woman in Antique Style Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard Apocryphal signature 'P. P. de Chavannes' lower right Oil on canvas laid on cardboard, apocryphal signature 'P. Puvis de Chavannes' lower right 37 x 33,5 cm - 14 5/8 x 13 1/4 in. Provenance - By family tradition: Family of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) - Private collection, France (acquired from the latter) Note This painting is a reproduction of the head of the central female figure in Thomas Couture's composition "The Romans of Decadence" (1847), now in the Musée d'Orsay (INV 3451).