College pierre paul prud hon biography
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This retrospective devoted to Pierre-Paul Prud&#;hon (–) begins with his Sign of the Hatmaker Charton (), a naive artifact painted before the artist left Cluny in for Dijon to study. Who knowing just this homely object could have imagined that its creator would do some of the lushest nudes of both sexes made by any artist? After then going on to Paris, Prud&#;hon in the s spent three years, three months in Rome. Returning to Paris in , after failing to compete with David and David&#;s follower, Anne-Louis Girodet, he did a few works associated with the Revolution, but was not deeply involved in politics. Withdrawing from that city in the late s to do portraits, he returned in and did his most famous paintings—Empress Josephine at Malmaison () and a commission for the criminal court at the Palais de Justice, Justice and Divine Vengeance Pursuing Crime (). The Restoration brought him commissions for religious allegories; and his last work was Christ on the Cross (), painted fo
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Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
th-centuries French painter
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (French pronunciation:[pjɛʁpɔlpʁydɔ̃], 4 April – 16 February 16, ) was a French Romantic painter and draughtsman best known for his allegorical paintings and portraits such as Madame Georges Anthony and Her Two Sons (). He painted a portrait of each of Napoleon's two wives.
He was an early influence on Théodore Géricault and Constance_Mayer, who may have influenced him as well, due to their intimate working relationship.
Biography
[edit]Pierre-Paul Prud'hon was born in Cluny, Saône-et-Loire, France. He received his artistic training in the French provinces and went to Italy when he was twenty-six years old to continue his education. On his return to Paris, he found work decorating some private mansions, often allegorical works such as The Soul Breaking the Links Holding it to the Earth and The Dream of Happiness. His work for wealthy Parisians led him to be held in high esteem at Napol
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Prud'hon was one of the leading history painters in France around In his strong preference for allegories and his eclectic style based on Renaissance and baroque models he stood out in a situation largely defined by Jacques-Louis David and his school.
The painter was born Pierre Prudon on 4 April in Cluny, the son of a stone carver. He studied in Dijon , married in , then worked mainly for a local nobleman, the baron de Joursanvault, and, after a period in Paris , returned to win the Dijon prix dem Rome of the estates of Burgundy in He stayed in Rome until , then returned to Paris and produced vignettes, book illustrations and small anecdotal paintings. He first exhibited at the Salon of , then continuously until (posthumously) in After a period at Rigny (Franche-Compt&#;) in /, his career started to blomma. In he worked on his first large decorative scheme for the H&#;tel de Lannoy in the following years he obtained important commissions from the state and from Napol&#;on's circl