Live auction - Lot 29
[French school]
Assumption with putti.
PRUD'HON, Pierre-Paul (attributed to)
Hammer price: €
260
€ 300 / 500
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Lot description
Ca. 1770-1810
Drawing, black and white chalk, 31,6 x 23,2 cm, brown prepared paper, unsigned (laid down on paper mount, brush strokes visible).
Fine design with attribution on passe-partout to the French Academic painter Prud'hon (1758-1823). The compostion of the design shows many connections to "The abduction of Psyche" from ca. 1808 in Paris (Louvre, inv. RF 831).