
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Head of a Woman
Pierre Paul Prud'hon · 1800/10
Provenance
Ownership history
- Given by the artist to Mme. Sophie Duprat [old label in object file]. Cambray [ld label in object file]. Seligmann [according to letter from Galerie Pardo dated November 29, 1956 in curatorial file]. Sold by Galerie Pardo, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1956.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Musée de Orangerie, “French Drawings from American Collections,” 1958.
- St Louis, Mo., Washington University Gallery of Art, "Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Artists and Draughtsmen," March 13–April 8, 1966, no cat.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gods and (Super)heroes: Drawing in an Age of Revolution", November 16, 2017 - April 1, 2018.
Literature
Published references
- Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks from the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 2E3.
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