ID 1196417
Lot 37 | PIERRE PAUL PRUD'HON (CLUNY, SAÔNE-ET-LOIRE 1758-1823 PARIS)
Estimate value
$ 100 000 – 150 000
Portrait of Madame Péan de Saint-Gilles, half-length, seated, in a black gown with a draped red Indian shawl
signed and dated 'P.P. Prud'hon / 1821' (lower right)
oil on canvas, unlined
28 7⁄8 x 23 ½ in. (73.3 x 59.7 cm.)
with the exhibition label of the Paris Salon of 1822 '1047' (upper left) and with a Belot stamp (on the reverse)
Provenance
Louis Passy (1830-1913), Eure, grandson of the sitter, and by descent to
Comtesse de Bueil, by 1922, and by descent to
Comte René de Bueil, by 1958, and by descent to
Comte Michel de Bueil.
with Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York, by 1995 and where acquired by the following
Private collection, New Orleans, by 1997.
with Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York, where acquired in 2002 by the present owner.
Literature
A.M.C. Clément, 'Les dernières lettres de Prud'hon', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, IX, 1874, p. 429.
E. de Goncourt, Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint, Dessiné et Gravé de P.P. Prud'hon, Paris, 1876, pp. 50-51.
A. Dayot, Famous Beauties in Art From the beginning of the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day, Boston, 1907, p. 215.
L. Regnier, Louis Passy, sa Vie et ses Oeuvres, Pontoise, 1917, p. 5.
J. Guiffrey, L'oeuvre de P.P. Prud'hon, Paris, 1924, no. 586, p. 220.
S. Laveissière, Prud'hon ou le rêve du bonheur, Paris, 1997, p. 276, 283-285, no. 203.
E.E. Guffey, Drawing an Elusive Line: The Art of Pierre-Paul Prud-hon, Newark and London, 2001, p. 208.
Exhibited
Paris, Salon of 1822, no. 1047.
Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, Exposition des Oeuvres de Prud'hon au profit de sa Fille, May 1874, no. 27.
Paris, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Exposition Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, May-June 1922, no. 64.
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon 1758-1823, 15 October-1 December 1958, no. 111.
Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand-Palais; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Prud'hon ou le rêve du bonheur, September 1997-June 1998, no. 203.
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