Pierre-Paul Prud’hon
Cluny 1758 – 1823 Paris
”L’Enlèvement de Psyché”. Circa 1808
Black chalk over pencil, washed grey and heightened with opaque white, on heavy paper. 53,6 × 44,3 cm. (21 ⅛ × 17 ½ in.) Lower right the collector's mark Lugt 353. Catalogue raisonné: Guiffrey 150. – the drawing will be included in the new catalogue of works of Pierre-Paul Prud'hon by Sylvain Laveissière, Paris. Study for the painting of the same name in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no. RF 512). [3144] Framed
ProvenanceCharles-Pompée Boulanger de Boisfrémont, Paris (inherited 1823 from the artist, until 1838) / Mme Power, née de Boisfrémont / M. Marcellot, Paris, (acquired at the 1864 auction, until at least 1884) / unknown collection / P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London (1975) / Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich (1976) / Rudolf Zwirner Collection
EUR 200.000 – 300.000
USD 215,000 – 323,000
ExhibitionExposition des dessins de maîtres modernes (de 1780 à 1883). Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, 1884, cat. no. 562
Literature and IllustrationCatalogue des dessins. Compositions, portrait, études d’après nature et esquisses peintes par Prud’hon, légués par lui à M.De Boisfremont. Paris, Hotel Drouot, 15./16.4.1864, cat. no. 57 / Edmond de Goncourt: Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, dessiné et gravé de P. P. Prud'hon. Paris, Rapilly, Libraire et Marchand d'Estampes, 1876, p. 106 (mentioned under no. 43) / Exhibition of French Drawings, Post-neo-classicism. London, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co, 1975, p. 11 / Kunst in Frankreich 1800–1870. Von Prud'hon bis Puvis de Chavannes. Munich, Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, 1976, cat. no. 15, ill. / Weltkunst, vol. 46, 1976, p. 802, ill. (advertisement of Galerie Arnoldi-Livie)
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