1965.326: Young Nymph Teased by Cupids; verso: Academic Study of a Male Nude

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.326

People

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French (Cluny 1758 - 1823 Paris)

Title

Young Nymph Teased by Cupids; verso: Academic Study of a Male Nude

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1811-1812

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296249

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and white chalk, squared in black chalk, on blue paper faded to gray-green within previous mat opening. Verso: Academic study of a male nude.

Dimensions

53.5 × 41.5 cm (21 1/16 × 16 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Charles Boulanger de Boisfremont (Lugt 353). Deniere. Jacques de Bryas. Stettiner. Baron Maurice de Rothschild. [Wildenstein] sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (by 1927), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs

Accession Year

1965

Object Number

1965.326

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Dessins, croquis, études, tableaux et esquisses par Pru'dhon: Catalogue de la collection de M. de Boisfremont fils, auct. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, April 9, 1870), lot 30
• Edmond de Goncourt, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessine et grave de P. P. Prud'hon, Rapilly (Paris, France, 1876), p. 317
• Catalogue des dessins, tableaux, pastels, aquarelles, gouaches du XVIIIe siècle . . . composant la collection de M. le Comte Jacques de Bryas, auct. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, April 4-6, 1898), lot 141, repr.
• Jean Guiffrey, L'oeuvre de P. P. Prud'hon, A. Colin (Paris, France, 1924), vol. XIII, p. 30, no. 83
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 634, fig. 320
• Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 40, repr.
• Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 303, repr.
• 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. 176, note 2
• 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. 189, fig. 9, repr.

Exhibition History

• Exposition des oeuvres de Prud'hon au profit de sa fille, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 05/04/1874 - 07/04/1874
• Exposition P.-P. Prud'hon, Petit Palais, Paris, Paris, 05/01/1922 - 06/05/1922
• French Painting of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/06/1929 - 04/06/1929
• Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
• Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
• The Heavenly Twins: Edward W. Forbes, Paul J. Sachs and the Building of a Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/23/1995 - 12/17/1995

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