Une Lecture (A Lecture)

Une Lecture (A Lecture) by Pierre Paul Prud'hon

Medium

lithograph on chine applique

Classification

Print

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1980.45.1173

About the Artist

Pierre Paul Prud'hon

Pierre Paul Prud'hon (1758–1823) was a French painter and draughtsman whose dreamy, sensuous art occupied a singular position between the Neoclassicism and Romanticism that competed for dominance in French painting around 1800. Born in Cluny in Burgundy, he received his early artistic training at the Dijon Academy before winning the Prix de Rome of the Estates of Burgundy, which allowed him to spe...

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