



Pierre-Paul Prud'hon(Cluny 1758-1823 Paris)Le Serment or The Oath from Jean Jacque Rosseau's Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse (Part 4, Letter XVII)
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Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (Cluny 1758-1823 Paris)
inscribed 'a Julie' (upper right)
brush and grey wash heightened with white on wove paper
14.5 x 9.6cm (5 11/16 x 3 3/4in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Possibly, sale, 16 March 1857, lot 159
Collection of Dr. Guérard (all according to literature)
With M.A. McDonald, New York (according to a label on the reverse)
Private Collection, USA
Literature
J. Guiffrey, L'oeuvre de P.P. Prud'hon, Paris, 1924, pp. 412-3, cat.no. 1073, ill., pl. XXXI
The present work is from the series of drawings Prud'hon prepared for an edition of Jean-Jacques Rosseau's Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse published in Rouen in 1794-5. Another work from this series, depicting Le Premier Basiser de l'amour (Love's First Kiss), is in the musee du Louvre, Paris (inv. no. RF1455).
A preliminary sketch for the present work was offered at Beaussant-Lefevre, 10 June 2022, lot 156 (black chalk heightened with white, 15 x 10cm).