His painting of Josephine portrays her not as an Empress, but as an attractive woman, which led some to think that he might have been in love with her. After the divorce of Napoleon and Josephine, he was also employed by Napoleon's second wife Marie-Louise.
The young Théodore Géricault had painted copies of work by Prud'hon, whose "thunderously tragic pictures" include his masterpiece, Justice and Divine Vengeance Pursuing Crime, where oppressive darkness and the compositional base of a naked, sprawled corpse obviously anticipate Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa.[1]
Study for The Dream of Happiness (with Constance Mayer), 1819
References
^ a bGayford, Martin. "Distinctive power". The Spectator, November 1, 1997. Retrieved from findarticles.com on January 6, 2008.
Further reading
General studies
Adapted from a following source: Freitag, Wolfgang M. (1997) [1985]. Art Books: A Basic Bibliography of Monographs on Artists (2nd ed.). New York, London: Garland. p. 327, entries nos. 10041–10049. ISBN 0-8240-3326-4.
Bricon, Etienne (1907). Prud'hon: biographie critique (in French). Paris: H. Laurens. OCLC 1051736394 – via the Internet Archive.
Clément, Charles (1872). Prud'hon: sa vie, ses œuvres et sa correspondance (in French). Paris: Didier et Cie. OCLC 1051761864 – via the Internet Archive.
Forest, Alfred (1913). Pierre-Paul Prud'hon : peintre français (1758-1823) (in French). Paris: E. Leroux – via Gallica.
Friedlaender, Walter (1952). David to Delacroix (6th printing, 1974). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-19401-4. OCLC 1029048561. SBN 674-19401-2 – via the Internet Archive.
Gauthiez, Pierre (1886). Prud'hon. Les Artistes Célèbres. Paris: J. Rouam. OCLC 848495507 – via the Internet Archive.
Goncourt, Edmond de (1876). Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, dessiné et gravé de P.P. Prud'hon (in French). Paris: Rapilly. OCLC 1041796905 – via the Internet Archive.
Grappe, Georges (1958). Prud'hon (in French). Paris: A. Michel. OCLC 2502696.
Guffey, Elizabeth E. (2001). Drawing an Elusive Line: The Art of Pierre-Paul Prud'hon. Newark: University of Delaware Press. ISBN 0-87413-734-9. OCLC 46462851.
Guiffrey, Jean (1924). L'œuvre de Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (in French). Paris: A. Colin. OCLC 2743610.
Laveissière, Sylvain (1998). Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (exhibition catalogue). New York: Metropoliten Museum of Art, distributed by H. N. Abrams. ISBN 0-8709-9845-5. LCCN 97044759 – via the Internet Archive.
O'Neill, J, ed. (2000). Romanticism & the school of nature : nineteenth-century drawings and paintings from the Karen B. Cohen collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Régamey, Raymond (1928). Prud'hon (in French). Paris: Rieder. OCLC 604652946.
Voïart, Élise (1824). Notice historique sur la vie et les ouvrages de P.-P. Prudhon, peintre (in French). Paris: Firmin-Didot – via Gallica.
Reference works
Bénézit, Emmanuel (2006) [first published in French in 1911–1923]. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Vol. 11. Paris: Gründ. pp. 436–439. ISBN 2-7000-3081-8 – via the Internet Archive.
Weston, Henry (1996). "Prud'hon, Pierre-Paul". In Turner, Jane (ed.). The Dictionary of Art. Vol. 25. New York: Grove's Dictionaries. pp. 669–672. ISBN 1-884446-00-0 – via the Internet Archive.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pierre-Paul Prud'hon.
Europe in the age of enlightenment and revolution, a catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Prud'hon (see index)
Crucifixion at Web Gallery of Art
Pierre-Paul Prud’hon: Napoleon’s Draughtsman at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London