Venus

c. 1810-1812

Pierre Paul Prud'hon

Artist, French, 1758 - 1823

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk with white chalk heightening on blue-gray paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 60.9 x 45.2 cm (24 x 17 13/16 in.)

  • 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


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