Puvis de Chavannes is best known for his mural painting, and he came to be known as "the painter for France," despite his present relative obscurity. His first commission was for his brother's chateau, Le Brouchy, which is a medieval-style structure near Cuiseaux in Saône-et-Loire. The principal decorations take the four seasons as their theme. His first public commissions came early in the 1860s, with work at the Musée de Picardie at Amiens. The first four works wereConcordia (1861), Bellum (1861), Le Travail (Work)(1863) and Le Repos (Rest)(1863).
