1986.618: Cupid Testing His Arrow
Drawings
This object does not yet have a description.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1986.618
- People
-
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French (Cluny 1758 - 1823 Paris)
- Title
- Cupid Testing His Arrow
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: L'Amour à la flèche
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 18th-19th century
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/294506
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black and white chalk on blue paper faded to tan
- Dimensions
- actual: 42 x 29.8 cm (16 9/16 x 11 3/4 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Ian Woodner
- Accession Year
- 1986
- Object Number
- 1986.618
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.
Publication History
- Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), Appendix B, p. 294
- 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), under no. 85, fig. 85a
- 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. 190, fig. 11, repr.
Verification Level
This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu