Auction on
22 June 2021 - 14:00 (CEST) -
Salle 6 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
French artist Pierre-Paul Prud'hon’s study of an unattainable love offers a fresh promise of happiness that will not get away this time.
Pierre-Paul Prud’hon (1758-1823), Étude pour la jeune femme en avant de la barque du tableau “Le Rêve du bonheur” (Study for the Young Woman at the Front of the Boat in the Painting “The Dream of Happiness”), pierre noire, stumps and white chalk highlights on formerly blue paper, 27 x 22 cm/10.63 x 8.66 in. Estimate: €20,000/30,000
Pierre-Paul Prud’hon (1758-1823), Étude pour la jeune femme en avant de la barque du tableau “Le Rêve du bonheur” (Study for the Young Woman at the Front of the Boat in the Painting “The Dream of Happiness”), pierre noire, stumps and white chalk highlights on formerly blue paper, 27 x 22 cm/10.63 x 8.66 in. Estimate: €20,000/30,000
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758-1823) led two lives. He was a neoclassical painter who caught the attention of Napoleon Bonaparte before being adulated by the imperial family, of which he painted portraits of Josephine and the king of Rome, and even taught Marie-Louise drawing. But his private life was wretched, with a forbidden love for the young…
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