DrawingsFrench18th century

Reason Speaks and Pleasure Carries One Away

c. 1795-1799

Artists

Pierre-Paul Prud'honArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black and white chalk on faded blue antique laid paper

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

actual: 21.7 x 17.7 cm (8 9/16 x 6 15/16 in.)

Provenance

L. Lapeyrière; his sale, Me. Lacoste, Paris, April 14, 1817, no. 98 (as "la Vertu aux prises avec le Vice" and "la Raison parle, le Plaisir entraîne"; Fr 261); purchased at that sale by (?) Sallé; Senator Justynian Karnicki, Warsaw (d. before 1881; his mark, Lugt 1921, no. 1562, on old mounts; see fig. 128); Galerie Adolphe Le Goupy, Paris, 1924; acquired through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, June 1928 (Fr 40,000); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

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