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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) image 1
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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) image 3
Lot 45*

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)

5 July 2023, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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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)
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).

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