'Andromache and Astyanax' by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon and Charles Boulanger de Boisfremont
| Autor: | Laurence B. Kanter |
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| Rok vydání: | 1984 |
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| Zdroj: | Metropolitan Museum Journal. :143-150 |
| ISSN: | 2169-3072 0077-8958 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/1512816 |
| Popis: | PRUD'HON'S Andromache and Astyanax (Figure i) has been the subject of a mild critical controversy since he failed to complete it for exhibition at the Salon of 1817 in Paris.' Retained by the artist, it appeared at the posthumous sale of his estate (May 13, 1823, lot i) with the notice that some accessories and a few draperies were left unfinished. It was bought by Prud'hon's pupil and friend Charles Boulanger de Boisfremont, who undertook to supply the missing passages of paint and exhibited the "completed" picture in the Salon of 1824.2 The picture's reception was mixed; critics were divided between those who found it feeble and those who, even with specific reservations, thought it a masterpiece.3 One particularly outspoken criticism of the picture was leveled not at Prud'hon but at Boisfremont's ef |
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