Swann Galleries - A Collector’s Vision: Works on Paper from the Belle Époque & Beyond - Sale 2412, Part I - April 28, 2016

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24 ● PIERRE-PAUL PRUD’HON
Une Lecture.
Lithograph, 1822. 184x147 mm; 71/4x57/8 inches, small margins.Third state (of 4). Printed
by Moitte, Paris. A very good impression of this extremely scarce, early lithograph.
We have found only 3 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years.
A celebrated painter and draughtsman during the French Empire, he was the Empress
Joséphine’s personal drawing instructor. Prud’hon (1758-1823) executed only a handful of
prints; fewer than a dozen etchings and lithographs have been attributed to him. Beraldi 2.
[1,000/1,500]