Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
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Pierre-Paul Prud'hon was a French Neo-classical painter and draughtsman best known in his own time for his allegorical paintings and portraits, now for his drawings. He painted a portrait of Napoleon'
Prud'hon's only known self-portrait, c. 1788–1790
Signature de Pierre Paul Prud'hon 1799
Justice and Divine Vengeance Pursuing Crime, 1808. The darkness and the sprawling naked figure anticipate Théodore Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa.
Male Nude Study, National Gallery of Art
Constance Mayer
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Marie-Françoise Constance Mayer La Martinière was a French painter of portraits, allegorical subjects, miniatures and genre works. She had "a brilliant but bitter career."
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
…painted a portrait of Napoleon's wife Empress Josephine. He was an early influence on Théodore Géricault. After 1803 he worked so closely with artist Constance Mayer on many paintings, that it is almost impossible to tell where the contribution of one ends and the other begins. Pierre-Paul Prud'hon was born in Cluny…
Constance Mayer, "Self-Portrait," 1799, oil on canvas, 110 x 85 cm, bibliothèque et villa Marmottan, inv. 1970–1952
Self-Portrait with Artist's Father: He Points to a Bust of Raphael, Inviting Her to Take This Celebrated Painter as a Model, oil on canvas, 1801, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Sophie Fanny Lordon
Amable Tastu, oil on canvas, Musée de Metz, France