Attributed to Pierre-Paul PRUD'HON (1758 - 1823) - Lot 104

Attributed to Pierre-Paul PRUD'HON (1758 - 1823) Departure for the hunt Round cardboard Diameter: 12 cm Inscribed 19th century on the reverse "Par Prud'hon de chez Alfred Stevens". Provenance: Collection Alfred Stevens, Mme Blanc (Prud'hon, designated as representing a Departure of Vendéens) ; Mme Blanc sale, May 3, 1876, no. 24 (510 fr. Bought back by Mme Blanc). Bibliography: E. de Goncourt, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé de P. P. Prud'hon, Paris, 1876, cited p. 126 (Départ pour la chasse) and p. 331 (The sketch of "Départ pour la chasse" belonging to M. Stevens (page 126), and catalogued under the title "Les Vendéens" in the catalog of Mme Bl... May 3, 1876, has been withdrawn by the possessor"; J. Guiffrey, L'oeuvre de P.-P. Prud'hon, Paris, 1924, no. 722 (Départ pour la chasse).