Harvard Art Museums > 1943.886: Male Nude Figure Resting Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Male Nude Figure Resting (Pierre-Paul Prud'hon) , 1943.886,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 21, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/297092. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 Permissions THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT BY THE TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION TO THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS. 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. 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 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