Donations from the Prat collection

Following the exhibition À la poursuite de la beauté. Diary from the Prat collection, the collector couple, in agreement with the curators, donated two drawings linked to the history of the Musée d'Orléans. They will join one of France's leading graphic art collections, subject to usufruct: a spectacular sheet recently re-attributed, bringing it closer to the work of Pierre Brebiette, and a drawing that belonged to Eudoxe Marcille, the first de Prud'hon to enter the Orléans collection.

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Portrait of Charlotte de Talleyrand-Périgord, aged seven (1798-1873), 1805, black stone and white chalk on blue paper

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Pierre Brebiette, Jeune homme vu en buste, 2nd quarter 17th century, pen and brown ink, brush, grey wash on paper

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