BIB_ID
127126
Accession number
MA 1834
Creator
Prud'hon, Pierre-Paul, 1758-1823.
Display Date
between 1780 March 7 and 1780 March 11.
Credit line
Purchased, 1956.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; (8vo)
Notes
The painting described in the letter is Prud'hon's Allégorie en l'honneur du baron de Joursanvault.
The letter's sale and publication history has been studied by the scholar Sylvain Laveissière; additional information available on request.
The letter's sale and publication history has been studied by the scholar Sylvain Laveissière; additional information available on request.
Provenance
From the Alfred Dupont Collection. Part I. Paris, 11-12 Dec., 1956, no. 284.
Summary
Responding to the baron's praise for his work; asking to be allowed to go to Paris; outlining his artistic plans and hopes; discussing in detail a specific painting; saying that he could stop in Beaune on his way to Paris and make busts of the baron and his companion, Mademoiselle Dembrun, which he will use in his complete re-working of the painting; sending various news from Cluny, including news of his second-born child and the baron's godson (born on March 7th and baptized on the 11th).
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