DrawingsFrench18th century

The Genius of Liberty and Wisdom

c. 1791

Artists

Pierre-Paul Prud'honArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black crayon, graphite and white gouache on cream antique laid paper mounted to commercially prepared board

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

32 x 17 cm (12 5/8 x 6 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Duc de Rivoli; his sale, Me Petit Laneuville, "expert," Paris, April 18-19, 1834, no. 60 (as "L'Amour admirant le buste de la Sagesse"); M.G. . . (per illegible inscription on back of cardboard support); Pierre-Jules Mène, by 1872; his son-in-law Auguste Nicholas Cain, by 1884; his son Georges Cain, Paris, by 1900; Mme Georges Can, by 1922; Cain sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 9-10, 1939, no. 68 (as "Le Génie de la Liberté ou La Sagesse"); acquired through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, April 1939 (Fr 20,000); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

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