Pierre-Paul Prud'hon

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Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
1758-1823
Portrait of Count Giovanni Battista Sommariva
1813
Black and white chalk on blue paper.
11 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches (301 x 225 mm)
Thaw Collection.
2017.197
Inscription: 

Signed at left below design area, in black chalk, "P.P.Prud'don."

Provenance: 
Camille Marcille, his sale, his sale, Paris, 6-7 March 1876, lot 130; Camille Groult (1832-1908), Paris; his sale, Paris 21 March 1952, lot 49, repr. (under the title Le Repos dans le Parc); Galerie Cailleux, Paris, 1957; Benjamin Sonnenberg, New York; his sale, Sotheby's, New York, 5-9 June 1979, lot 24, repr.; Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
Associated names: 

Marcille, Camille, former owner.
Groult, Camille, 1832-1908, former owner.
Sonnenberg, Benjamin, 1901-1978, former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 304, repr.
Denison, Cara D. et al. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw. Part II. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1985, no. 19.

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