Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
Cupid Testing the Flame of His Torch
1777-1812
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Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
Cupid Testing the Flame of His Torch
1777-1812
Physical Qualities
Black and white chalks with stumping on blue paper, Sheet: 378 × 302 mm. (14 7/8 × 11 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Nelson and Juanita Greif Gutman Collection
Object Number
1981.18
Blue, medium-weight, moderately textured laid paper mounted on brown, thick board
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1981; Galerie Nathan, Zurich; Sale, Palais d'Orsay, Paris, April 3, 1979, lot 19, sold for 72,000 francs; Edouard de Rothschild, Paris; Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), Paris, 1874; Sale Charles Turpin, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Feb. 5, 1874, lot 166, p. 39, sold for 1,860 francs; Alexandre Du Sommerard (1779-1842) Sale, Paris, March 3-4, 1826, no. 92, sold for 450 francs; Sale Tønnes Christian Bruun-Neergaard (1776-1824), F.L. Regnault-Delalande, Paris, August 29, 1814, lot no. 311, p. 66, sold for 100 francs. N.B. Guiffrey erroneously records the date of the Bruun-Neergaard sale as APRIL 29 rather than AUGUST 29, which is the correct date (confirmed at Frick 11-27-00 cks); Laveissière also records the date as August rather than April.
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, "Exposition des oeuvres de Prud'hon au profit de sa fille," 1874, no. 218.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," October 14-November 28, 1982.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Baltimore Collects: French and Italian Drawings, 1715-1814', Oct. 16-Dec. 2, 1984.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Master Drawings by French Artists from the Museum's Collection," May 14-July 23, 1989.
Richard Campbell and Victor Carlson, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Visions of Antiquity: Neoclassical Figure Drawings," July 22-September 19, 1993, p. 202-204, no. 48, ill. p. 203; circulated to Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 30, 1993-January 2, 1994; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, February 6-April 3, 1994.
Jay Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "18th Century French Drawings," November 8-December 31, 1995.
Sylvain Laveissière, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, "Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758-1823)", March 2-June 5, 1998, p. 132-3, no. 84, ill. p. 133.
Jay McKean Fisher, William R. Johnston and Cheryl K. Snay, 'The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas,' organized by The Walters Art Museum and The Baltimore Museum of Art, circulated to The Walters Art Museum June 19, 2005 - September 11, 2005, The Birmingham Museum of Art February 9, 2006 - May 4, 2006, Tacoma Art Museum June 9, 2006 - September 7, 2006.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," October 14-November 28, 1982.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Baltimore Collects: French and Italian Drawings, 1715-1814', Oct. 16-Dec. 2, 1984.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Master Drawings by French Artists from the Museum's Collection," May 14-July 23, 1989.
Richard Campbell and Victor Carlson, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Visions of Antiquity: Neoclassical Figure Drawings," July 22-September 19, 1993, p. 202-204, no. 48, ill. p. 203; circulated to Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 30, 1993-January 2, 1994; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, February 6-April 3, 1994.
Jay Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "18th Century French Drawings," November 8-December 31, 1995.
Sylvain Laveissière, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, "Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758-1823)", March 2-June 5, 1998, p. 132-3, no. 84, ill. p. 133.
Jay McKean Fisher, William R. Johnston and Cheryl K. Snay, 'The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas,' organized by The Walters Art Museum and The Baltimore Museum of Art, circulated to The Walters Art Museum June 19, 2005 - September 11, 2005, The Birmingham Museum of Art February 9, 2006 - May 4, 2006, Tacoma Art Museum June 9, 2006 - September 7, 2006.
Fisher, Jay McKean, et al. The Essence of Line: French drawings from Ingres to Degas. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005, p. 306-308, ill.
Sylvain Laveissière, Prud'hon: Le cabinet des dessins, Paris: Flammarion, 1997, p. 119.
Sylvain Laveissière, 'Date obolum picturae: Prud'hon, David du pauvre?' in David contre David: Actes du colloque organisé au Musée du Louvre par le service culturel du 6 au 10 décembre 1989, edited by Régis Michel, vol. 2, Paris, 1993, p. 905, fig. 181, p. 997.
Baltimore Museum of Art Members Calendar and Annual Report (1981), 'Accessions and Deaccessions 1981', n.p. [p. 2], illustrated front cover.
James Slayman, The Drawings of Pierre-Paul Prud'hon: A Critical Study, Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1970, p. 52.
Edmond de Goncourt, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé de P. P. Prud'hon, Paris, 1876, p. 145.
Inscribed: None.
