Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
Property from a New York Private Collection
PIERRE-PAUL PRUD'HON | L’ÂME BRISANT LES LIENS QUI L’ATTACHENT À LA TERRE (THE SOUL BREAKING THE TIES THAT BIND IT TO EARTH)
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Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
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Property from a New York Private Collection
PIERRE-PAUL PRUD'HON
Cluny 1758 - 1823 Paris
L’ÂME BRISANT LES LIENS QUI L’ATTACHENT À LA TERRE (THE SOUL BREAKING THE TIES THAT BIND IT TO EARTH)
Black and white chalk and stumping on blue paper
unframed: 398 by 260 mm
framed: 590 by 455 mm
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Inherited from the artist by Charles-Boulanger de Boisfremont (1773-1838; L.353),
thence by inheritance to Mme. Power, née de Boisfremont,
her sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 15-16 April 1864, lot 88;
H. Didier;
Monsieur de Saint-Remy,
his sale, Paris, 18 March 1878, lot 100
Germain Seligman (1893-1978), Paris and New York (L.3863);
sale, London, Sotheby's, 25 March 1965, lot 143;
with Eugene Thaw, New York,
where acquired in 1979
E. de Goncourt, Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint, Dessiné et Gravé de P.P. Prud'hon, Paris 1876, p. 171