Pierre <a href="https://findartvalue.com/artist/pierre-puvis-de-chavannes">Puvis de Chavannes</a> was born into a bourgeois family. His father intended his son to enroll at the École Polytechnique in Paris. After a prolonged illness, however, Puvis instead entered the Faculté de Droit. He became interested in art during a trip to Italy in 1846, and the following year he began studying with <a href