The Source

c. 1800–1810

Medium	black and white chalk, stumped, on light blue paper
Dimensions	Overall: 21 3/16 x 15 5/16 in. (53.8 x 38.9 cm)
Object Number	1955.833
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, The Source, c. 1800–1810, black and white chalk, stumped, on light blue paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.833

Select Bibliography

Cambridge (MA): Fogg Art Museum.. One Hundred Years of French Art.. 1934.. New London (CT): Lyman Allyn Museum. Fourth Anniversary Exhibition, Drawings.. March 2-April 15, 1936.. 1936. Paris: Palais National des Arts.. Chefs d'oeuvres de l'art français.. 1937.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-one: Drawings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: 1965. Wildenstein & Company. An Exhibition of Treasures from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Paintings, drawings & rare silver, for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, inc. (CRIA). Exhibition catalogue. New York: Wildenstein & Company, 1967. Boime, Albert and Mary Newcome-Schleier. Strictly Academic: Life Drawing in the Nineteenth Century. Exhibition catalogue. Binghamton, NY: State University of New York, Binghamton, 1974. Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995. Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux. Prud'hon ou le rêve du bonheur (English version: Pierre-Paul Prud;hon). Paris, Grand Palais, Sept. 23, 1997-Jan. 12, 1998; New York, Metropolitan Museum, March 2-June 7, 1998. Cat. by Sylvain Laveissière.

Locquin, Mme. Jean. "Origines et Formations de l'Art Français." La Renaissance 20 (Summer 1937): 1–53.

George Waldemar.. "La Femme, mesure de l'art français, la peinture.". L'Art et les artistes, vol. 35.. (1938).. . . Coronet. vol. 8, no. 4.. (August 1940).. Knobler, Nathan. The Visual Dialogue. 2nd ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971. Richardson, John Adkins. ArtThe Way It Is. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1973. Daniel M. Mendelowitz.. Drawing: A Study Guide.. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.. 1975.. Malcolm Cormack.. The Nude in Western Art.. 1976.. Stuart R. Purser.. Approaches to Drawing.. 1976.. Lu Bro.. Drawing: A Studio Guide.. New York: W. W. Norton.. 1978.. Faison, S. Lane, Jr. The Art Museums of New England: Massachusetts. Vol. 2. Revised edition of Faison, Guide to the Art Museums of New England, 1958. Godine Guide 3. Boston: David R. Godine, 1982. Lu Bro.. Wie lerne ich zeichnen: ein Lehr- und Studien-Buch.. Cologne: DuMont Buchverlag.. 1983.. Marjorie Elliott Bevlin.. Design through Discovery: The Elements and Principles.. New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston.. 1985.. Calvin Albert.. Figure Drawing Comes to Life. 2nd ed.. New York: Prentice Hall.. 1986.. Fichner-Rathus, Lois. Understanding Art. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1986. Fichner-Rathus, Lois. Understanding Art. 4th edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1995. Laurer, David A., and Stephen Pentak. Design Basics. 4th ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1995. Robert Gordon and John Elderfield.. The Language of the Body: Drawings by Pierre Paul Prud'hon.. New York: Harry N. Abrams.. 1996.. Henry M. Sayre.. A World of Art, 2nd ed.. Englewood Cliffs (NJ): Prentice Hall.. 1997.. . Connaissance des Arts. H.s. no. 111. 1997. Sylvain Laveissière.. Le cabinet de dessins: Prud'hon.. Paris: Flammarion.. 1997. Ganz, James A. "Old Masters in the Clark Collection, Part II: Prints and Drawings" The Magazine Antiques 62, no. 4 (October 1997): 51015. Clint Brown and Cheryl McLean.. Drawing from Life. 2nd ed.. Fort Worth (TX): Harcourt Brace.. 1997.. Fichner-Rathus, Lois. Understanding Art. 5th edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1997. Robert Gordon and John Elderfield, tr. by France Valentini. La Poésie du Corps: Dessins de Pierre-Paul Prud'hon.. 1997.. Editions de la Martinière.. 1997. Sayre, Henry M. A World of Art. 3rd edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. Lauer, David A. and Pentak, Stephen. Design Basics. 5th edition. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 2000. Rathus, Lois Fichner. Understanding Art, 6th ed.. Fort Worth (TX): Harcourt College Publishers. Sayre, Henry M. A World of Art, 4th edition. Prentice Hall. 2003:p. 118. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.

Provenance

Pierre P. Prud'hon (drawings left to M. de Boisfremont, according to L. 353);* Charles Boulanger de Boisfremont (L. 353); Van Cuyck (according to Seligmann invoice and Paris Exhibiition Catalogue, 1937); Groult (1907, according to Seligmann invoice and Paris Exhibition, 1937); Jacques Seligmann (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1940). *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.