A Standing Female Nude

c. 1810

Pierre Paul Prud'hon

Artist, French, 1758 - 1823

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of David H. McDonnell

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 44.6 × 29 cm (17 9/16 × 11 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2017.126.7

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Henri-Amadée, Marquis de la Ferronays. (Galerie Cailleux, Paris [Lugt 4461]). Dr. Claus Virch, New York; (his sale, Sotheby's, London, 8 July 2015, no. 132); David H. McDonnell, Alexandria; gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1953

  • Figures Nues d'École Française, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1953, no. 162.

Bibliography

1998

  • Laveissière, Sylvain. Pierre-Paul Prud'hon. Exh. cat. Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Grand Palais, Paris, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997-1998, 264, under no. 188.

Inscriptions

lower left in black chalk: Prudhon

Wikidata ID

Q64540049

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