Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (Cluny 1758-1823 Paris) Jeune homme en buste (black and white chalk on blue...

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (French, 1758-1823)
Jeune homme en buste
pierre noire, craie blanche sur papier bleu, collé en plein
19.7 x 17.7cm (7 3/4 x 6 15/16in).

black and white chalk on blue paper, laid down on paper
Footnotes:
The same model, in a very similar position, can be found on a drawing, now at the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris (S. Laveissière, Prud'hon ou le rêve du bonheur, cat. exp. Paris, Grand Palais and New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997, no. 197 and cat. exp. Le dessin sans réserve. Collections du musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, 2020, p. 125, ill.).

Originally, the position of the head and body was to be even more inclined. The artist reframed his drawing and consequently had to complete the left corner. Prud'hon reframed several of his academies in a similar way (see, for example, S. Laveissière, op. cit., nos. 189 and 192).

The drawing will be included by Sylvain Laveissière in his catalogue raisonné on Prud'hon's works, in preparation.