Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
Venus and Cupid
Auction Closed
January 31, 03:58 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
Cluny 1758 - 1823 Paris
Venus and Cupid
black chalk heightened with white chalk within black chalk framing lines, on faded blue paper
11 ¾ by 8 ¼ in.; 297 by 210 mm
The estate of the artist;
By inheritance to Charles Boulanger de Boisfremont (1773-1838) (L.353);
By inheritance to Mrs. Power, née Émilie de Boisfrement,
her sale, 15-16 April 1864, lot 112;
A. Montmartel (according to labels on the backing),
possibly his sale, Paris, 25-26 December 1883;
Donop de Monchy Collection, Paris, no. 271 (according to label on old backing);
Jean Masson (1856-1933), Paris,
his sale, Paris, Féral, 6 December 1923 (according to label on old backing);
Jacques Mathey (1883-1973), Paris, in 1946;
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 24 January 2007, lot 94A;
Anonymous sale, Paris, Sotheby's, 24 June 2009, lot 81,
Where acquired by the present owner.
Paris, Prud’hon, 1874, no. 180;
Paris, Prud’hon, 1922, no. 99;
Paris, Pavillon de Marsan, Les Goncourt et leur temps, 1946, no. 318;
Paris, Galerie Cailleux, Le dessin français de Watteau à Prud’hon, 1951, no. 110;
London, Matthiessen Gallery, Exhibition of French Master Drawings of the 18th century, 1950, no. 70.
E. de Goncourt, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé de Pierre-Paul Prud’hon, Paris 1876, no. 65, p. 150 (as 'L’Amour prisonnier', Une femme nue penchée sur l’Alour le retient par les ailes);
J. Guiffrey, L’oeuvre de Pierre-Paul Prud’hon, Paris 1924, no. 180, p. 67 (as Vénus au bain).
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