ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE PAUL PRUD'HON (1758-1823)
STUDY OF A LANDSCAPE NEAR THE FOREST OF COMPIÈGNE
Black & white chalks on grey paper
17.8 x 24.8 cm
PROVENANCE:
[POSSIBLY] Carrier, 9-10.05.1846, Lot 209 (Etude prise dans la forêt de Compiègne)
Where acquired for 26 francs by Camille Marcille (1816-1875) [L.506a], Chartres;
With Mortimer Brandt, New York (stamped on mount in blue ink MBNY / 1455.b, not in Lugt);
Constable Family, Cambridge and Sherborn, Massachusetts
EXHIBITED [on the basis of the above]:
Chartres, Musée de Chartres, Exposition Dèpartementale de Chartres, 1869, no. 45;
Chartres, Musée de Chartres, Exposition Prud'hon, May 1874, no. 321
LITERATURE [on the basis of the above]:
Goncourt, p.308 (Le dessin au crayon noir et à la craie sur papier verdàtre, faisait partie de la collection de M.Camille Marcille);
Guiffrey, p.469, no. 1305