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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.885
People
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French (Cluny 1758 - 1823 Paris)
Title
Pyrrhus and Andromache
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1793-1796
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297091

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down to a stiff paper backing mounted to a separate strip hinged at the top
Dimensions
actual: 22.7 x 18 cm (8 15/16 x 7 1/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.885
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 296, 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. 158, fig. 158b
  • 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. 181, fig. 5, repr.
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), p. 47, repr. p. 48 as gi. 6

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