Labels:bulletin board | door | earth | fence | reckoner | road | sky OCR: Puvis de Chavannes Pierre: 1824 -1898) French painter who advocated retuming a pure pastoral Mediterranear classicism. Puvis de Chavannes is credited with inspiring the Symbolist painters of the late nineteenth century When VAr Gogh arrived in Arles he wrote Theo that the aleanders and plane trees were straight out of the pictures returning Mediterranean lassicism oleanders