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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.886
People
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French (Cluny 1758 - 1823 Paris)
Title
Male Nude Figure Resting
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1815-1820
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297092

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
Dimensions
irregular: 46.6 x 56.2 cm (18 3/8 x 22 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: IBR DLC

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles-Pompée Le Boulanger de Boisfremont (Lugt 1921, no. 353); his son Oscar; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 9, 1870, no. 53 (Fr 110); purchased at that sale by (?) Du Boys; anonymous sale (Du Boys?), Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 26-27, 1879, no. 133 (Fr 1,205); purchased at that sale by (?) Lefe [...}; Jean Dollfus; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 20-21, 1912, no. 111 (Fr 1,650); purchased at that sale by (?) Strauss; Reginald Davis; acquired through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, May 1928 (Fr 46,000); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.886
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
strips added at top and right side

Publication History

  • Jean Guiffrey, L'oeuvre de P. P. Prud'hon, A. Colin (Paris, France, 1924), pg. 456, no. 1237 (also erroneously cited on pg. 35, in the provenance for no. 102, which is a study, now in the Louvre, for "The Dream of Happiness")
  • Martin Birnbaum, The Last Romantic (New York, NY, 1960), pg. 199
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 304, repr.
  • John Elderfield and Robert Gordon, The Language of the Body: Drawings by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1996), pl. 51 [color]
  • John Elderfield, La poésie du corps: dessins de Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Editions de La Martinière (Paris, France, 1997), pl. 51 [color]
  • Sylvain Laveissière, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon [Prud'hon ou le rêve du bonheur], exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. [Réunion des Musées Nationaux] (New York, NY and Paris, France, 1997), cited pg. 304 (bibliography of no. 214)
  • Edward Saywell, "Guide to Drawing Terms and Techniques", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 30-39, p. 38 under "White chalk"
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., "Un grand collectionneur américain de dessins français: Grenville L. Winthrop et les oeuvres de Pierre-Paul Prud'hon au Fogg Art Museum", Pierre-Paul Prud'hon: actes du colloque organisé au musée du Louvre par le service culturel, le 17 novembre 1997, La documentation française, Musée du Louvre (Paris, 2001), pp. 177-202, p. 180, fig. 4, repr.
  • Elizabeth Guffey, Drawing an Elusive Line: The Art of Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, University of Delaware Press/ Associated University Presses (Newark (DE) and London, 2001), pp. 120-21, fig. 78
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), cat. no. 105, repr. (color), p. 30
  • Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 105, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Drawing on Tradition: The Lost Legacy of Academic Figure Studies, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/19/1994 - 01/29/1995
  • A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery, London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004

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