FRENCH SCHOOL circa 1800, entourage of Pierre Paul Prud'honPortrait
of Jean Martin Fontaine, gilder painterCanvas63
x 53 cm
(Misses)
Provenance :
Adolphe Le Goupy - Lecaplain et Cie Gallery, Paris in 1924
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Bibliography :
Catalogue of the exhibition Jean-Louis Titon La Neuville, dit Laneuville (1756-1826), portraitiste et marchand expert, Vizille, musée de la Révolution française, 27 June - 27 October 2014, cited under n° 73, reproduced fig.16
Our portrait bears an old attribution to Prud'hon
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It is based on the composition by Prud'hon signed and dated 1793 (Oval canvas, 60 x 50 cm) acquired from the Georges Wildenstein gallery by the Musée National des Beaux-Arts d'Alger (see J. Guiffrey, L'œuvre de P.-P. Prud'hon, Paris, 1924, no. 518).
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