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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1956.214
People
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French (Cluny 1758 - 1823 Paris)
Title
Empress Josephine
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Study for a Portrait of a Seated Woman (Empress Josephine?)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1805
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297224

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk on faded blue antique laid paper
Dimensions
21.6 x 30 cm (8 1/2 x 11 13/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William D. Vogel
Accession Year
1956
Object Number
1956.214
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. 299, 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), no. 126, repr. (color)
  • 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. 10, repr.
  • Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 117

Exhibition History

  • Pierre-Paul Prud'hon [Prud'hon ou le rêve du bonheur], Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 09/23/1997 - 01/12/1998; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 03/02/1998 - 06/07/1998

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