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After Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
Lot 7 PROPERTY OF THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND

After Pierre-Paul Prud'hon

The Abduction of Psyche

Closed15 June 2016

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After Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
The Abduction of Psyche
oil on panel
17 5/8 x 14 ¾ in. (44.8 x 37.5 cm.)

Alphonse Kann, Paris (by 1912, until 1927).
His sale; American Art Association, New York, January 7, 1927, no. 85, as by Prud'hon.
Mrs. William R. (Lillian S.) Timken, New York.
Gifted to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by the above, 1959.

Specialist note

The present work is a copy, in reverse, after the original painting by Prud'hon, exhibited at the Salons of 1808 and 1814, now in the Louvre, Paris.