Head of a Woman

Prints and Drawings

1800/10

Pierre-Paul Prud’hon
French, 1758-1823

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Artist: Pierre Paul Prud'hon
Title: Head of a Woman
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1800–1810
Medium: Black chalk, with stumping, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
Dimensions: 36.2 × 28.5 cm (14 5/16 × 11 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Simeon B. Williams Fund
Reference Number: 1956.1217
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Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks from the Nineteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 2E3.

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.

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.

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