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Prud'hon

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Prud'hon (French) [prydɔ̃]
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(Biographies / Prud'hon, Pierre Paul (1758-1823) M, French, ARTS AND CRAFTS: painter) Pierre Paul (pjɛr pɔl). 1758-1823, French painter, noted for the romantic and mysterious aura of his portraits


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Which is why the publishers of this book should not have reproduced the magnificently colorful paintings by Prud'hon, David, Vigee-Lebrun, and Gillray in boring black-and-white throughout.
A great admirer of Pierre-Paul Prud'hon and Antonio Canova, Sommariva had a taste for elegant Neoclassicism and the Anacreontic sensuality of the pre-Revolutionary days.
Highlights of the exhibition include paintings by American masters as Rembrandt Peale, John Singleton Copley, John Trumbull, Joshua Johnson (an American freedman) and Gilbert Stuart and French artists including Jacques-Louis David, Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon and Antonio Canova.
 
 
 
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