Study of a Nude Woman, Seated Looking to the Right (recto) Study of a Male Nude (verso)
c. 1810
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (French, 1758–1823)
Drawings
Study of a Nude Woman, Seated Looking to the Right (recto) Study of a Male Nude (verso), c. 1810. Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (French, 1758–1823). Black and white chalk (both stumped); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1961.318
- Maker/Artist
- Prud'hon, Pierre-Paul
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- black and white chalk (both stumped)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: on recto, lower left, in red ink: stamp of Charles-Boulanger de Boisfremont [Lugt 353]; on verso, lower left, in black ink: stamp of Cleveland Museum of Art [Lugt 605e]; watermark, at bottom: unidentified, large chaplet. ON SEPERATELY APPLIED PIECES OF PAPER (now removed), printed in black ink: WALTER S. M. BURNS, ESQ. / To be Sold on giving up his Residence at 50, Grosvenor Street, W. / Sale - Sotheby [inscribed in black ink] / DAY OF SALE / Thursday, May 6th, 1926. ; printed in black ink: PIERRE PRUD'HON. / 134 Study of a Nude Woman seated looking to the Right / Black and white chalk on blue paper / 24 in. by 16 3/4 in. (610 mm. by 425 mm.) ; printed in black ink: 2.026
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1961.318
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review - 1962, Neo-classicism: Style and Motif, Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands, French Drawings, Drawings, French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in North American Collections, Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism, French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792, The Lessons of the Academy, National Schools of Style, Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure, French Drawings from the Collection, Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, <em>French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in North American Collections</em>. Art Gallery of Ontario (September 2–October 15, 1972); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (November 3– December 17, 1972); California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco (January 12–March 11, 1973); New York Cultural Center (April 4–May 13, 1973).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 101B Prints & Drawings
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