Venus
c. 1810-1812
Artist, French, 1758 - 1823

Artwork overview
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Medium
black chalk with white chalk heightening on blue-gray paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 60.9 x 45.2 cm (24 x 17 13/16 in.)
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Accession
1972.48.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Binder à l'Isle-Adam; (sale, Paris, April 8, 1873, lot 60); Jean Stern; Dr. Fritz Nathan and Dr. Peter Nathan, Zurich
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1974
NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 56.
1993
Visions of Antiquity: Neoclassical Figure Drawings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1993-1994, no. 44.
Bibliography
1876
Goncourt, Edmond de, and Jules de Goncourt. French XVIII century painters. Translated by Robin Ironside. Ithaca, 1981: 327.
1923
Martine, Charles and Léon Marotte. Pierre-Paul Prud'hon: Soixante-douze reproductions...accompagnées d'une vie du peintre.... Vol. 3 of Dessins des maîtres français. Paris, 1923: no. 62.
1924
Guiffrey, Jean. L'Oeuvre de P.-P. Prud'hon. Paris, 1924: no. 172.
1970
Slayman, James Hugus. "The Drawings of Pierre-Paul Prud'hon: A Critical Study." Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1970: pl. 56.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 678, no. 1088, color repro.
1989
Ingamells, John. The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Pictures. Vol. 3, French before 1815. London, 1989: 324-325, under P347.
1996
Elderfield, John. The Language of The Body: Drawings by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon. New York, 1996.
1998
Laveissière, Sylvain. Pierre-Paul Prud'hon. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 1998, 246, under no. 177.
2001
Guffey, Elizabeth E. Drawing an Elusive Line, The Art of Pierre-Paul Prud'hon. Newark, Delaware, and London, 2001, 116 (not illus.).
Wikidata ID
Q64619624