Standing Female Nude, Seen from Behind

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (French, 1758–1823)

1785–90

Medium/TechniqueCharcoal heightened with white chalk on blue laid paper

DimensionsSheet: 61 x 34.9 cm (24 x 13 3/4 in.)
Framed: 99.1 x 71.1 cm (39 x 28 in.)
Sight: 60 × 33.3 cm (23 5/8 × 13 1/8 in.)

Credit LineBequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection

Accession number65.2598

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InscriptionsInformation on back of frameProvenanceBequeathed by the artist to Charles Boulanger de Boisfremont (b. 1773 - d. 1838; Lugt 353), Paris; by descent to his son; April 9, 1870, Boisfremont fils sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 51. By 1922, Simone Adam Marbeau, Paris [see note 1]. Possibly Mme. Yeatman [see note 2]. November 30, 1949, sold by Wildenstein and Co., New York, to Forsyth Wickes (b. 1876 - d. 1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)

NOTES:
[1] Lent by Mme. Marbeau to the exhibition "P. P. Prud'hon" (Palais de Beaux-Arts, Paris, May-June, 1922), cat. no. 242 (as "Académie d'homme, vue de dos"). [2] According to Jeffrey H. Munger et al., The Forsyth Wickes Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, 1992), pp. 134-135, cat. no. 83.