Pierre Paul Prud'hon

Pierre Paul Prud'hon
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Public domain

(1758–1823) fransk målare

Pierre Paul Prud'hon (France, 1758–1823) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Pierre Paul Prud'hon belongs to the chapter ‘Neoclassicism’ in this site’s history of art.

Pierre Paul Prud'hon was born in Cluny and died in Paris. Pierre Paul Prud'hon studied under François Devosge. Pierre Paul Prud'hon worked in Paris. Pierre Paul Prud'hon became a member of Académie des beaux-arts. The students included Pierre Jérôme Lordon, Constance Mayer, and Charles de Steuben.

The best-known works include ‘L'enlèvement de Psyché’ and ‘Portrait of Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck and his Family’. The works belong mainly to the genre history painting. The catalogue has 63 works by Pierre Paul Prud'hon with free images. The dated works span the years 1758–1884. Works by Pierre Paul Prud'hon are held by several collections, among them Département des peintures du Louvre, Wallace Collection, Department of Paintings of the Louvre, and Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Romanticism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Pierre Cartellier, Shin Yun-bok, François Watteau, Fyodor Matveyev, and Friedrich Georg Weitsch.