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Pierre-PaulPrud’hon
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AdametÉvechassésduparadisterrestre(AdamandEveExpelledfromParadise)
Oiloncanvas,38.5cmx46.4cm
onrecto,onframe,lowercentre,onametalplate:“PRUD’HON”
onverso,onframe,uppercentre,handwrittenlabel:“2006/3”;typewrittenlabel:“Regal248”[with
correction: 238]; centre right, printed orange label: “EXPOSITION d[…]”; that label annotated:
“Amsterdam”,“101”[?];lowerright,smallhandwrittenlabel:“10036”
onstretcher,centreright,onorangelabel“Prudhon[?]”;thatlabelpastedover,partiallyconcealing
anovallabelwithredborder:“[…]5,RuedelaTerrasse.PARIS”,onwhichhasbeenwritteninpencil:
“[…]RueRivoli”;lowerright,inscribedinpencil:“VenteRouart1913”
onverticalstretcherbar,labelstamped:“DOUANESFRANÇAISESPARIS,SERVICEDESEXPOSITIONS”;
handwrittenlabel:“Laperlier1867/Prud’hon/No43.AdametEve[chassésduparadisterrestre?]”;
thatlabelannotatedinpencil:“Fot.”
oncanvas,centreright,blackstampinoval:“BELOT/ruedeLarbre-Sec/N.o3.”
Provenance:
Charles-BoulangerdeBoisfremont,Paris
MmeVeuvePower,neeBoisfremont
Sale:VenteaprèsdécèsdeMmeVeuvePower(perGoncourt)
Acquiredattheabovesale:LaurentLaperlier,ParisandMustapha,Algeria
Sale:VenteLaperlier,HôtelDrouot,Paris,11–13April1867,lot43
Acquiredattheabovesale:AdolpheDugléré,Paris
Sale:VenteDugléré,HôtelDrouot,Paris,11June1884,lot32
HenryRouart,Paris
Sale:VenteRouart,GalerieManzi-Joyant,Paris,9December1912,lot64
By1922:JacquesBaudrier
(…)
RogerDelapalme(perCorneliusGurlittPapers)
AcquiredafterFebruary1941:HildebrandGurlitt,Hamburg(perCorneliusGurlittPapers)
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1945–1950CentralCollectingPointWiesbaden,no.WIE2006/3
From15December1950:HildebrandGurlitt,Dusseldorf
BydescenttoCorneliusGurlitt,Munich/Salzburg
From6May2014:EstateofCorneliusGurlitt
Exhibitions:
ExpositiondesœuvresdePrud’honauprofitdesafille.ÉcoledeBeaux-Arts,Paris,4May–4July
1874.[no.49]
ExpositionP.P.Prud’hon.PalaisdesBeaux-Arts,ParisMay–June1922.[no.121]
DeLeNainànosjours.Amsterdam,1926
Bibliographicalreferences(selected):
Goncourt, Edmond de. Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, dessiné et gravé de P. P. Prud’hon.
Paris:Rapilly,1876.[p.81]
Cataloguedetableauxanciensetmodernes[...]letoutdépendantdelasuccessiondeM.Adolphe
Dugléré[...].Auct.cat.,11June1884.[no.32]
Alexandre,Arsène.LacollectionHenriRouart.Paris:Goupil&Cie.,1912,p.62.
Cataloguedestableauxanciens[…]etdestableauxmodernes[…]composantlacollectiondefeu
M.HenriRouart.Auct.cat.,GalerieManzi-Joyant,Paris,10–11December1912.[p.35,lot64]
“ExpositionPrud’hon,”p.333.In:LaRenaissancedel’artfrançaisetdesindustriesdeluxe,vol.5,
no.1(January1922).
Guiffrey,Jean.L’œuvredePierre-PaulPrud’hon.Vol.10.Paris:Colin,1924.[p.97,no.270]
Primarysources:
CorneliusGurlittPapers,Salzburg:
AppraisalFrançoisMax-Kann,no.12_1227[25February1941]
SupplementListFrançoisMax-Kann[“Betr.Dr.Gurlitt”],referenceno.inprocess[n.d.]
Photographs,no.7.1_F7104[10June1942]
NationalArchives,CollegePark,Maryland(NARA):
M1947,WiesbadenCentralCollectingPoint,PropertyCardno.WIE2006/3
www.fold3.com/image/231953359(3December2015)
RijksbureauvoorKunsthistorischeDocumentatie,TheHague:
Photographofthepainting
WittLibrary,London:
FolderHenriRouart
SeizureInventory[Sicherstellungsverzeichnis],2012,no.SV(Part2)/108
Furthersourcesconsulted:
Guiffrey, Jean, and Pierre Marcel, eds. Inventaire général des dessins du Musée du Louvre et du
Musée de Versailles. Vol. 1 of École française. Paris: Librairie Centrale d'Art et d'Architecture,
1907.
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Guiffrey,Jean.P.P.Prud'hon:peintures,pastelsetdessins.Paris:Morancé,1924.
Leporini,Heinrich,ed.Prud'hon.Vienna:Manz,1925.
Michel,Édouard.LapeintureauMuséeduLouvre:Écoleflamande.Paris:Illustration,1929.
Scheffler,Karl.DiegrossenfranzösischenMalerdes19.Jahrhunderts.Munich:Bruckmann,1942.
Muehsam, Gerd. French Painters and Paintings From the Fourteenth Century to PostImpressionism.NewYork:Ungar,1970.
Lauts, Jan. Französische Bildnisse des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe,
1971.
Kunst in Frankreich 1800–1870: von Prud’hon bis Puvis de Chavannes. Exh. cat., Galerie ArnoldiLivie,Munich,May–June1976.
Eisler,Colin,ed.EuropeanPaintingsExcludingItalien:CompleteCatalogueoftheSamuelH.Kress
Collection.Oxford:Phaidon,1977.
Laveissière, Sylvain, ed. Pierre-Paul Prud'hon. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art, Galleries
NationalesduGrandPalais,Paris,23September1998–5January1998;MetropolitanMuseumof
Art,NewYork,10March–7June1998.
Rosenberg,Pierre.Lapeinturefrançaise.Paris:PlacedesVictoires,2009.
Vogtherr, Christoph Martin. Französische Gemälde I: Watteau, Pater, Lancret, Lajoüe. Berlin:
Akademie,2011.
BusinessrecordsHildebrandGurlitt
CorrespondenceHildebrandGurlitt
CulturalPlunderbytheEinsatzstabReichsleiterRosenberg:DatabaseofArtObjectsattheJeude
Paume
Database“CentralCollectingPointMünchen”
Database“KunstsammlungHermannGöring”
GettyProvenanceIndex,GermanSalesCatalogs
Lootedart.com
LostArt
RépertoiredesBiensSpoliés
VerzeichnisnationalwertvollerKunstwerke(“Reichslistevon1938”)
Note:
ThefirstknownownerofthisworkwasCharlesBoulangerdeBoisfremont(1773?–1838),oneof
thepagesofLouisXVI.TheworkwassubsequentlyownedbycollectorsLaurentLaperlier(1805–
1878), Adolphe Dugléré (1805–1884), Henry Rouart (1833–1912), Jacques Baudrier, and Roger
Delapalmerespectively.
Roger Delapalme (1892 Paris–1969 Paris) was the son of the public notary Pierre-Marie
Delapalme.RogerDelapalmewasprofessionallyemployedinthemanagementoftheCompagnie
desCourtiersJurésd’assurances,aninsurancecompany,whereheservedfirstasTreasurerand
thenasDeputyDirector.HiswifeYvonnewasthedaughterofHenryChabert,thedirectorofthe
BanquedeParisetdesPays-Bas.ThecouplelivedinParisat92,ruedeRichelieu.
TheextantpapersofCorneliusGurlittcontainaninventoryofartworkssaidtobelongtoRoger
DelapalmeofParis,65,rueLaBoëtie,asappraisedbytheartexpertFrançoisMax-Kanninearly
1941.Thisappraisalitemizes40lots(comprisingatotalof44artworks),includingthisPrud’hon
painting.
While the exact circumstances of acquisition are not yet known, it is most likely that Gurlitt
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acquired this work after February 1941, possibly through Max-Kann who may have acted as
intermediary.
ThepersonalpapersfoundinCorneliusGurlitt’sSalzburghomeincludeacollectionofabout2,400
photographsofartworks.Photographno.7.1_F7104,isareproductionofthiswork;inscribedon
verso,astatementofauthenticitybyFrançoisMax-Kann,dated10June1942.
Thelabel“Regal248”[corr.238](onframeverso)indicatesthepainting’sspecificlocationinthe
storagefacilitiesoftheWiesbadenCentralCollectingPointintheimmediatepost-warperiod.
TheblackstamponcanvasversoreferstoBelot,afamousFrenchsupplieroffineartsmaterials.
The oval label with red border from the art shipping company Chenue Emballeur, 5, Rue de
Terrasse,Paris.
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