Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
French, 1758-1823
Seated Female Nude
INV-1458
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
French, 1758-1823n.d.
Seated Female Nude
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon French, 1758-1823 →chalkdrawings (visual works)
Date
n.d.
Medium
Black and white chalks, with stumping, on blue laid paper
Dimensions
52 × 31.1 cm (20 1/2 × 12 1/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
For many years in a private Chicago collection and long desired for the museum, this striking drawing appeared for auction in 1996 and was purchased by Dorothy Edinburg for her collection at the Art Institute of Chicago. It is one of about 100 male and female nude studies in black and white chalk on blue paper that the artist made between 1810 and 1821. This model has been identified as the dark-haired beauty Marguerite, who famously caught the eye of Frederick William III, king of Prussia, in Prud’hon’s studio in 1814.
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