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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1943.889
People
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French (Cluny 1758 - 1823 Paris)
Title
Cruelty Laughs at the Tears Which It Causes To Be
Shed
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Other Titles
Original Language Title: Le Cruel rit des pleurs qu'il fait
verser
Alternate Title: Cruelty Laughs at the Tears He Has
Caused to Flow
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1793
Culture
French
Physical Descriptions
Medium
Black chalk and black crayon on white antique laid
paper
Dimensions
actual: 24.5 x 32.3 cm (9 5/8 x 12 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
watermark: Fleur-de-lis atop a plain shield with a bend
Provenance
Jean-Baptiste Martial Poulain; his sale, G. J.
Constantin, Paris, December 19, 1803, no. 145 (as "Le
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cruel rit des pleurs qu'il fait verser; dessin précieux, à la
pierre noire"; Fr 281); Barthélemy Roger; his sale,
Mannheim, Paris, December 23-28, 1841, no. 139 (Fr
360); Constantini, by 1874 at least until 1879;
anonymous sale (Constantini's, according to Guiffrey
1924, no. 19), Hôtel Drouot, Paris, room 3, April 15,
1882, no. 71 (as "L'Amour vainqueur"); purchased at
that sale by Mme Poiret (Fr 1,000); Robert Hoe; his sale,
American Art Association, New York, February 15March 3, 1911, no. 3228; Richard Ederheimer Print
Cabinet, New York, December 1913; anonymous sale,
Paris, Hôtel Drouot, April 1, 1914, no. 89 (Fr. 1,000); Lilly
Lawlor, Paris, 1927, acquired from her through Martin
Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, July 1927 ($2,700),
his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of
Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.889
Division
European and American Art
Contact
[email protected]
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Publication History
Jacques-Philippe Voïart, Notice historique sur la vie et
les ouvrages de P.P. Prud'hon, peintre membre de la
Légion-d'honneur et de l"institut, Firmin Didot,
Boulland et Cie (Paris, 1824), pg. 13
Charles Blanc, Le trésor de la curiosité (2 vols.), Vve. J.
Renouard (Paris, 1857-1858), pg. 217
Théodore Michel Lejeune, Guide théorique et pratique
de l’amateur de tableaux (3 vols.), Vve. J. Renouard
(Paris, 1864-1865), vol. 1, pg. 315
Charles Clément, Prud'hon; sa vie, ses oeuvres et sa
correspondance, Didier et cie. (Paris, 1872), pp. 199,
206, 376
Edmond de Goncourt, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre
peint, dessine et grave de P. P. Prud'hon, Rapilly (Paris,
France, 1876), pg. 138
B. Tailhades, "L'oeuvre de Prud'hon" [omissions and
errors in Goncourt 1876], La Chronique des arts et de la
curiosité, Bureaux de la Gazette des beaux-arts (Paris,
November 10, 1877), pg. 329
Original Drawings by Old Masters, checklist, R.
Ederheimer Print Cabinet (New York, 1913), pg. 48, no.
93 repr.
Jean Guiffrey, L'oeuvre de P. P. Prud'hon, A. Colin
(Paris, France, 1924), pp. 9-10, no. 19 (and p. 21,
following no. 52, for the 1882 sale)
Martin Birnbaum, The Last Romantic (New York, NY,
1960), pg. 199
James H. Slayman, "The Drawings of Pierre-Paul
Prud'hon: A Critical Study" (1970), University of
Wisconsin, Madison, pp. 25-27, 256, pl. 15
Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the
Fogg Art Museum , Harvard University Press
(Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 295, repr.
Sylvain Laveissière, "À quel siècle Prud'hon appartient-
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il?", Pierre-Paul Prud'hon: actes du colloque organisé
au musée du Louvre par le service culturel, le 17
novembre 1997, ed. Sylvain Laveissière, La
documentation française, Musée du Louvre (Paris,
(1997) 2001), pg. 211
Philippe Bordes, "Un graveur disponsible, JacquesLouis Copia", Pierre-Paul Prud'hon: actes du colloque
organisé au musée du Louvre par le service culturel, le
17 novembre 1997, ed. Sylvain Laveissière, La
documentation française, Musée du Louvre (Paris,
(1997) 2001), pg. 113
Sylvain Laveissière, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon [Prud'hon ou
le rêve du bonheur], exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of
Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. [Réunion des Musées
Nationaux] (New York, NY and Paris, France, 1997),
under no. 32, fig. 32a
Sylvain Laveissière, Prud'hon ou le rêve du bonheur,
exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France,
1997), under no. 32, fig. 32a
Sylvain Laveissière, Prud'hon: Le Cabinet des Dessins,
Flammarion (Paris, France, 1997), p. 28 and color repr.
p. 29
Alvin L. Clark, Jr., "Un grand collectionneur américain
de dessins français: Grenville L. Winthrop et les
oeuvres de Pierre-Paul Prud'hon au Fogg Art Museum",
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon: actes du colloque organisé au
musée du Louvre par le service culturel, le 17 novembre
1997, La documentation française, Musée du Louvre
(Paris, 2001), pp. 177-202, p. 179, fig. 1, repr.
Elizabeth Guffey, Drawing an Elusive Line: The Art of
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, University of Delaware Press/
Associated University Presses (Newark (DE) and
London, 2001), pp. 81, 89-91, fig. 53, repr. (caption
error: reproduction of Fogg drawing, not engraving
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after it)
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-
Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L.
Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The
Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press
(New York, NY, 2003), cat. no. 101, repr. (color), p. 30
Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle,
Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 110
Exhibition History
Exposition des oeuvres de Prud'hon au profit de sa fille,
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 05/04/1874 - 07/04/1874
Exposition de dessins de maîtres anciens, Ecole des
Beaux-Arts, Paris, 05/01/1879 - 06/30/1879
A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and
Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection,
Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
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