PIERRE PAUL PRUD'HON. 1758-1823

84 HEAD OF THE VIRGIN

FROM THE ANNUNCIATION. 1811

Oil on canvas. 50 X 45 cm. Inv. No 1044 Signed and dated lower left: P. P. Prudhon 1811 The picture is a companion piece to Head of the Archangel Gabriel by Constance Mayer (The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Inv. No 1012). It is a replica of Head of the Virgin that was exhibited in the Salon of 1810 (No 665) and purchased by Empress Marie-Louise. There are at least two other replicas of the same original. A drawing for this picture is in the Dijon Museum (No 642).

Provenance: 1827—1924 The Yusupovs Collection, Arkhangelskoye (near Moscow) and St Petersburg —

Petrograd; 1924—27 The Hermitage, Leningrad; since 1927 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Exhibitions: 1912 St Petersburg, Cat. 492; 1955 Moscow, Cat., p. 51; 1956 Leningrad, Cat., p. 48 Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1948, p. 62; Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 112; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 150; F. P. Guisot, Salon de 1810, in: Etudes sar les Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1852, p. 93; Musee Youssoupoff 1839, No 142; А. Пра-хов 1907, pp. 8, 10, ill. 7; С.Яремич, "Классики и романтики на выставке Сто лет французской живописи", Старые годы, 1912, February, p. 47; Кат. Юсуповской галереи 1920, No 146; Эрнст 1924, р. 182, ill.; J. Guiffrey, L'CEuvre de P. P. Prud'hon, Paris, 1924, p. 110, No 308; Reau 1929, No 619

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