Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
1758-1823
Study for the Portrait of the Empress Joséphine
Full sheet: 9 3/4 x 11 7/8 inches (248 x 302 mm); design area: 8 5/8 x 10 1/4 inches (208 x 261 mm)
Black chalk, with stumping, with white chalk , on blue paper; design area ruled in pen and black ink.
1977.58
Bequest of Therese Kuhn Straus in memory of her husband, Herbert N. Straus.
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Watermark: none.
Preparatory drawing for the painting of 1805 now in the Louvre of the Empress Joséphine seated in the gardens at Malmaison.
Preparatory drawing for the painting of 1805 now in the Louvre of the Empress Joséphine seated in the gardens at Malmaison.
Associated names
Boisfremont, Charles Boulanger de, former owner.
Norsay, former owner.
Sensier, Alfred, 1815-1877, former owner.
Ferté, Léon, former owner.
Straus, Therese Kuhn, former owner.
Norsay, former owner.
Sensier, Alfred, 1815-1877, former owner.
Ferté, Léon, former owner.
Straus, Therese Kuhn, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 285.
Denison, Cara D. French Master Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1993, no. 92, repr.
Denison, Cara D. French Master Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1993, no. 92, repr.
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