#Pierre Paul Prud'hon

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (French, 1758-1823) Etude de femme nue debout, les bras appuyés à une branche, n.d. Musée du Louvre

[tragediambulante]

Psyche's abduction, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1800-1825

[galleryofart]

Young Girl Bathing

Artist: Attributed to Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (French, 1758 - 1823)

Date: 1782

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA, United States

Information

Few works from the earliest period of Pierre-Paul Prud'hon's career have survived, making it difficult to attribute this painting on stylistic grounds. Although the signature and date at lower left were partially effaced when the painting was cleaned, photographs made in the early twentieth century show that the canvas once bore the date 1782. This was the same year that the young and ambitious artist first went to Paris from his native Dijon, and this date, if accurate, would make the work one of the earliest known paintings by Prud'hon. While in Paris, Prud'hon lodged with the Fauconniers, a family of fellow Burgundians. A member of this family owned this painting as late as 1874. In addition to the circumstantial evidence for an attribution to Prud'hon provided by this provenance, the work resembles in some of its details, such as the draperies, certain drawings Prud'hon made in this early period of his career. As a mature artist, Prud'hon became known for his idiosyncratic and proto-romantic interpretation of the then-fashionable neoclassicism and for his extensive work for the Napoleonic court.

[weirdlookindog]

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon - Phrosine et Mélidore, 1769

[mythological-art]

Andromache and Astyanax

Artist: Pierre Paul Prud'hon (French, 1758–1823)

Date: c. 1813–1824

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States

Description

Prud’hon - a principal representative of neoclassicism who developed this smoky, sfumato technique - began this painting for the former empress of France, Marie Louise. Still incomplete when he died, it was finished by one of his students. The subject of family devotion and its relationship to the state is taken from the French dramatist Racine: Andromache embraces her son, Astyanax, in whom she sees the features of her husband, who had been killed by Achilles. When mother and son become spoils of war, Achilles’ son, Pyrrhus, falls in with her; however, as Pyrrhus’ surprised gesture indicates, she rejects his advances in fidelity to her deceased husband.

[romanticism-art-history]

The conversation of Napoleon and Francois II painted by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758 - 1823)

[art-portraits]

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Talleyrand

Artist: Pierre Paul Prud'hon (French, 1758–1823)

Date: 1817

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States

Description

Talleyrand, a brilliant political figure who served under every French ruler from Louis XVI to Louis Philippe, commissioned this portrait from Prud’hon in 1817. The artist had already painted two full-length portraits of him for Napoleon, first in 1806 (Château de Valençay) and again in 1807 (Musée Carnavalet, Paris). The composition of the portrait at The Met was based on the 1807 painting, but replaced the earlier, sumptuous costume of Talleyrand’s earlier status as Napoleon’s Grand Chamberlain with the far more somber clothing seen here, suggestive of Talleyrand’s retreat to private life and renunciation of Napoleon’s imperial ambition.

[artschoolglasses]

The Ascension of the Madonna, Pierre Paul Prud'hon, 1816-19

[mercuriicultores]

1805, Pierre Paul Prud'hon, L'Innocence préfère l'amour à la richesse

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (French, 1758-1823) Study of a Female Nude, ca.1800 The Getty Museum

[tragediambulante]

Female nude, Pierre-Paul Pru'hon, about 1800

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Pierre Paul Prud'hon - The empress Joséphine, 1805.

[visceral--feeling]

Justice and Divine Vengeance Pursuing Crime - Pierre-Paul Prud’hon // TEARS! - 5 Seconds of Summer

[myownprivate]

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758-1823), Study of a male bust, nude , black pencil and white chalk on blue paper, 32.60 x 22.20 cm. Drouot.

[sculppp]

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758-1823)

Philoctetes.

[history-of-fashion]

1810 Pierre-Paul Prud'hon - Portrait of a woman in blue dress

(Private collection via Christie’s)