Prud'hon

[proo-dawn]

noun

1. Pierre Paul Pierre Prudon, 1758–1823, French painter.

Prud'hon

/ prydɔ̃ /

noun

1. Pierre Paul (pjɛr pɔl). 1758–1823, French painter, noted for the romantic and mysterious aura of his portraits

Example Sentences

Against Impressionism, as against Romanticism, only one artist had dared to continue the tradition of classical, decorative painting descending from Giotto, through Raphael and Poussin, to Prud'hon and to Ingres.

From Project Gutenberg

Nor did Pierre-Paul Prud’hon, a favorite artist of Josephine Bonaparte, ever surpass, in intimacy, his chalk portrait of his lover Constance Mayer, who eventually killed herself out of fear he would leave her.

From New York Times

It bore some resemblance, perhaps, to that of painters like Prud'hon or Ary Scheffer, but it had more vitality, and on the whole more power.

From Project Gutenberg

Prud'hon, in a Crucifixion scene, hides the face of the Magdalene in her hands, and Kaulbach in his Marguerite so bends her head that her face is completely concealed from the observer.

From Project Gutenberg

A similar scheme is successfully managed in Prud'hon's Abduction of Psyche.

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