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The Triumph of Bonaparte

Pierre Paul Prud'hon · 1801

Provenance

Ownership history

Charles Boulanger des Boisfremont [stamp (Lugt 353) recto, lower left, in red]; sold, Apr. 14–16, 1864, lot 47. Sold by Knoedler, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA., Mar. 22, 1963; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2012.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, "Neoclassical and Romantic Works on Paper," Mar. 1992.
Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of a Lifetime: Old Master Drawings," Dec. 11–Mar. 28, 1999, checklist 48.
Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 86-87, cat. 56 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, "Gods and (Super)heroes: Drawing in an Age of Revolution," Nov. 16, 2017-Apr. 1, 2018, no cat.

Literature

Edmond de Goncourt, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé de P.P. Prud’hon (Paris, 1876), p. 161, cat. 73.
Charles Martine and Léon Marotte, Dessins des Maîtres Français III, Pierre Paul Prud’hon (Paris, 1923), cat. 32.
Jean Guiffrey, P.P. Prud’hon, peinture, pastels et dessins (Paris, 1924), pp. 9, 33, cat. 13, pl. 9.
Jean Guiffrey, L’Oeuvre de P. P. Prud’hon (Paris, 1924), p. 14.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), pp. 86-87, cat. 56 (ill.).

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