The Virgin with joined hands.
Oil on canvas (Important retractions of material in the background).
Signed and dated on the left in the border of the blue coat P. P PRUD'HON 1811.
57 x 48 cm.
Reprise of the composition (Canvas. 55 x 46 cm) " A Virgin's head" exhibited at the Salon of 1810 (n° 665).
Jean Guiffrey, in his catalog L'oeuvre de P. - P. Prud'hon (Paris 1924) mentions several replicas, all almost of the same dimensions, of The Virgin with joined hands exhibited at the Salon of 1810 and acquired by the Empress Marie - Louise, before passing to Vienna in the gallery of Prince Alfred Montenuovo (1854 - 1927) : the one of the former collection of the Duke Alfred de Montebello (56 x 47 cm) that his wife had also received from the Empress Marie - Louise (Cf. n° 308 - 310, pp. 110 & 112) and the one kept in the Pushkin Museum (Moscow), dated 1811, like our version, and coming from the Youssoupov collection (Cf. La Peinture Française au Musée Pouchkine, n° 84 - Leningrad 1980).
The preparatory drawing, in black stone and white highlights (24 x 17,8 cm) is kept in the Museum of Fine Arts in Dijon (Cf. Sylvain Laveissière, Prud'hon ou le rêve du bonheur ; catalog of the exhibition at the Grand Palais, in Paris, n° 148 P, p. 205 - RMN 1997).
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