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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.888
People
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French (Cluny 1758 - 1823 Paris)
Title
Reason Speaks and Pleasure Carries One Away
Other Titles
Original Language Title: La Raison parle et le Plaisir entraîne
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1795-1799
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297112

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk on faded blue antique laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 21.7 x 17.7 cm (8 9/16 x 6 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
L. Lapeyrière; his sale, Me. Lacoste, Paris, April 14, 1817, no. 98 (as "la Vertu aux prises avec le Vice" and "la Raison parle, le Plaisir entraîne"; Fr 261); purchased at that sale by (?) Sallé; Senator Justynian Karnicki, Warsaw (d. before 1881; his mark, Lugt 1921, no. 1562, on old mounts; see fig. 128); Galerie Adolphe Le Goupy, Paris, 1924; acquired through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, June 1928 (Fr 40,000); 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
1943.888
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jean Guiffrey, L'oeuvre de P. P. Prud'hon, A. Colin (Paris, France, 1924), pg. 127 under no. 351, 484 nos. 351 bis, 352 bis
  • James H. Slayman, "The Drawings of Pierre-Paul Prud'hon: A Critical Study" (1970), University of Wisconsin, Madison, pp. 33-34, 260, pls. 20, 21
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 298, 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. 36
  • Sylvain Laveissière, Prud'hon: Le Cabinet des Dessins, Flammarion (Paris, France, 1997), p. 30, repr. in color p. 31
  • 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. 2, repr.
  • 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. 102, repr. (color), and fig. 127, p. 30
  • Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 110
  • Reason Speaks and Pleasure Carries One Away, website, Princeton University Library, July 21, 2012, [online] https://blogs.princeton.edu/graphicarts/2012/07/post_34.html; accessed January 3, 2017
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), p. 71
  • Giulio Dalvit, Aimee Ng, and Xavier F. Salomon, The Eveillard Gift, exh. cat., The Frick Collection and Paul Holberton Publishing (New York, 2022), pp. 108, 110-112, repr. p. 110 as fig. 52

Exhibition History

  • A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004

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