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Premium Pierre-Paul PRUD'HON (Cluny 1758 - Paris 1823)
Diana begs Ju…
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Pierre-Paul PRUD'HON (Cluny 1758 - Paris 1823)
Diana begs Ju…
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Lot no. 107
Description
Pierre-Paul PRUD'HON (Cluny 1758 - Paris 1823)
Diana begs Jupiter not to subject her to Hymen
Black pencil and white chalk highlights on blue paper, shading
26.2 x 26 cm
Poor condition
Later retouching with white chalk
Old labels on verso
Provenance :
Former Constantin collection, his sale on 29 March 1830, n°175 ;
Former His de la salle collection (L. 1332);
Former Ch. Clément collection;
Former J.-J. Aubert-Canton collection;
Anonymous sale, 20 February 1920, n°157 ;
Ader sale, 22/11/1988, n°143, reproduced.
Bibliography:
J. Guiffrey, L'œuvre de P.-P. PRUD'HON, Paris, 1924, p.320, n°874.
S. Laveissiere, Prud'hon ou le rêve du bonheur, Paris and New York, 1997, p.154, n°108.
Our sketch, drawn by Prud'hon, is a design for the ceiling of the Salle de Diane in the Louvre. On 6 March 1801, the Museum Council appointed him to paint the ceiling for this room, the iconographic programme for which had been drawn up by Visconti. Prud'hon was to paint Diana imploring Jupiter not to subject her to the laws of Hymen in the centre; Diana Lucifera carrying two lighted torches and Night extinguishing the torches of the day on the sides. The central subject, surrounded by four large bas-reliefs, was the only one to be executed.
In our sketch, Diana is advancing through the air towards Jupiter, seated on his throne and holding his hand. Our study contains variations on the ceiling of Diana's room, with three Olympian divinities and two small angels appearing alongside Diana and Jupiter. Delacroix commented on the richness of this composition: "Prud'hon is all there: the nobility and lightness of the goddess, the skilful arrangement, the beauty of the background against which we catch a glimpse of the Olympian divinities drowned in a luminous vapour, all this is the work of a consummate master". E. DELACROIX, "Prud'hon", in Revue des Deux-Mondes, 1 November 1846.
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