#prud'hon

[artschoolglasses]

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

[empirearchives]

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon dreams

Early 1800s, France

[detournementsmineurs]

"L'Âme Brisant les Liens qui l'Attachent à la Terre" de Pierre Paul Prud'hon (1821-23) dans les collections permanentes du Louvre, mai 2024.

[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.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

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

[czerwonykasztelanic]

Je ne suis d'aucune faction; je les combattrai toutes

[sculppp]

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758-1823)

Philoctetes.

[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.

[empirearchives]

Justice and Divine Vengeance Pursuing Crime

about 1805–1806, Napoleonic era

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (French, 1758 - 1823)

A dead man lies sprawled across the foreground while blood seeps into the ground from a wound in his neck and his murderer flees with the victim's belongings in his arms. Above, Divine Vengeance, illuminating the way with a torch, and Justice, armed with sword and scales, pursue the criminal. Pierre-Paul Prud'hon made this study for a monumental painting destined to hang behind the judges' bench in the criminal courtroom of the Palace of Justice in Paris.

Prud'hon used quick, sweeping strokes of paint to lend movement and energy to the figures. Strong contrasts of light and dark accentuate the drama of the situation. Light from the moon illuminates the faces of the avenging personifications and highlights the torso of the dead man, while the face of the murderer is cast in darkness. Inspired by the Roman poet Horace's adage that "retribution rarely fails to pursue the evil man," Prud'hon conveyed the message that the course of justice is relentless if sometimes slow.

Source: Getty Museum

[weirdlookindog]

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

[detournementsmineurs]

"Portrait de l'Impératrice Joséphine" de Pierre Paul Prud'Hon (1805-09) dans les collections permanentes du Louvre, mai 2024.

[history-of-fashion]

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

(Private collection via Christie’s)

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

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

[lemuseum]

[mary-maud]

Louise Antoinette Scholastique Guéheneuc, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon