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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 5, 2013 | Bonhams | London | The Rau Unicef Sale | 80 | $****** - ****** | Portrait of Louise de Guéhéneuc, duchesse de Montebello (1782-1856), bust-length, in a yellow shawl and a lace bonnet |
paintings
55.2 x 48 cm (21.73 x 18.9 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'P.P.Prud'hon' (lower right)
Marquise Alfred de Montebello, Paris, by 1874, thence by descent to Louis Lannes, marquis de Montebello, Paris, by 1878, thence by descent to Comtesse de Roydeville, by 1902, thence by descent to Marquis de Montebello, by 1924. Sale, Christie's, Monaco, 20 June 1992, lot 92 (sold for £350,000 to Dr. Rau)
Paris, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Exposition des oeuvres de Prud'hon au profit de sa fille, 4 May4 July, 1874, no. 25. Paris, Palais du Trocadéro, Première exposition française des portraits nationaux, Exposition Universelle, 1878, no. 854. Paris, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Portraits du siècle, April 1883, no. 180. Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 23 September 19975 January 1998, no. 154. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 10 March7 June 1998, no. 154. Remagen, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Superfranzösisch: Kunstkammer Rau, 16 September 201027 February 2012.The present work was probably painted between 1810 and 1814 at a time when the artist was at the height of his powers. Following his portrait of Napoleon's first Empress, Josephine, in 1805 (now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris), Prud'hon was rewarded with portrait commissions from figures at the highest level of the state including Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord in 1807, and in 1811 the second Empress, Marie-Louise. The latter portrait, however, was never completed as the artist took so much trouble over it that the commission was eventually given to François Gérard and Robert Lefèvre (both portraits were exhibited at the Salon of 1812). It was not just in the field of portraiture that Prud'hon was achieving great success at this time: the salon of 1808 saw him exhibit both his painting for the Palais de Justice, Justice and Divine Vengeance pursuing Crime, and his Psyche Carried off by the Zephyrs. It was during this very productive period that the maréchale de Lannes would have come into contact with Prud'hon, particuarly as in April of 1810, Prud'hon was chosen to be the new Empress's drawing master on a monthly salary of 500 francs. Prud'hon has clearly delighted in painting the portrait of the handsome and graceful maréchale: there is a lightness of touch in the detail of the lace bonnet and flowers and in the beautifully observed detail of her shawl
G. Duplessis, Les Oeuvres de Prud'hon à L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Gazette des beaux-arts, 2nd ser., 9 (June 1, 1874), p. 574. E. de Goncourt, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de P. P. Prud'hon, Paris, 1876, p. 44. J. Guiffrey, L'Oeuvre de P. P. Prud'hon, Paris, 1924, p. 207, no. 555. S. Laveissière, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Pierre- Paul Prud'hon' held at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, from September 23 1997 through January 5 1998, and at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from March 10 through June 7 1998), New York, 1998, p. 209, fig. 154. S. Laveissière, Prud'hon ou le rêve du bonheur, exh. cat., Paris, Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1997, p. 209, no. 154. Musée National du Château de Compiègne, 1810: La politique de l'amour: Napoléon et Marie-Louise à Compiègne, exh. cat., Paris, 28 March-19 July 2010, no. 58 (illustrated. fig. 105)
