Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758-1823)

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Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758-1823)

A Woman dancing playing a Tambour

charcoal and white chalk, on grey-blue paper
454 x 227mm.

Provenance

Pierre-Phillipe Thomire
Martial Marcille
Clement Marcille; Drouot, 3 June 1876, lot 105 (1, 995 ff. to Wilson)
John W. Wilson
Madame Foà
Adolphe Beugniet
W. Goetz

Literature

C. Clement, Prud'hon, sa vie, ses oeuvres et sa correspondance, Paris, 1872, footnote on p. 274
E. de Goncourt, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé de P. P. Prud'hon, Paris, 1876, no. 403
J. Guiffrey, The Prud'hon Exhibition in Paris, The Burlington Magazine, XLI, 1922, p. 33, pl. 1A
J. Guiffrey, L'Oeuvre de Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Paris, 1924, no. 1012, illustrated

Exhibited

Chatres, Musée de Chatres, Exposition archéologique, 1858, no. 87
Paris, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Prud'hon, 1874, no. 403
Paris, Petit-Palais, Prud'hon, 1922, no. 193

Engraved

Lithographed by Jules Boilly

Lot Essay

A design for one of the statuettes of a surtout de table commissioned by the Préfet de la Seine, Nicolas-Thérése-Benoist Frochot as part of the furniture presented by the city of Paris as a gift to the Empress Marie Louise to celebrate her wedding in 1810, and later the birth of the King of Rome in 1811.

Although the surtout de table was never completed Thomire did cast the bronze of the figure studied in the present drawing

Two studies for the same commission of dancing women playing a triangle and cymbals, are in the Louvre and at at Bayonne respectively

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