Pierre PUVIS DE CHAVANNE (Lyon 1824 - Paris 1898) Ludus pro Patria" mural project. Sanguine. Signed lower left 23.5 x 30.5 cm Our drawing is preparatory to the decoration "Ludus pro Patria" or "Young Picards practicing with spears", dated 1888 and housed in the Musée de Picardie in Amiens. The sketch shows the left side of the decoration with young people holding spears (see : Aimé Brown Price, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, catalog raisonné, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2010, Tome II, p.248, fig.274) We would like to thank Mr. Bertrand Puvis de Chavannes for kindly confirming the authenticity of this drawing based on a photograph.