皮埃尔·保罗·普吕东出生于克鲁尼，索恩-卢瓦尔省。他在法国各省接受了他的艺术培训和去意大利时，他是26年岁继续他的教育。在他返回巴黎，他的装饰一些私人豪宅和他的富裕的巴黎人的工作使他在高声望在举行拿破仑的法庭。
他的绘画约瑟芬描绘了她，而不是作为一个皇后，但作为一个可爱漂亮的女人这导致一些人认为他可能已经爱上了她。拿破仑和约瑟芬离婚后，他也被拿破仑的第二任妻子雇玛丽-路易丝。
Prud'hon是在次被明显地影响新古典主义，在其他时间浪漫主义。其他艺术家和作家喜欢欣赏司汤达，德拉克洛瓦，米勒和波德莱尔为他的明暗对比和令人信服的现实主义，他可能是最有名的，他受难（1822），这是他画了圣艾蒂安的大教堂中梅兹。受难现在挂在卢浮宫。
年轻的西奥多·杰利柯已经由Prud'hon，其“如雷的悲惨图片”包括他的代表作，画作品的复制品正义和神圣的复仇追求犯罪，其中压迫的黑暗和一个赤身裸体，尸体趴的组成基础显然预见里柯的绘画筏的美杜莎。

Pierre Paul Prudhon was born in Clooney, Thorne et loire. He received his art training and went to Italy in the provinces of France when he was 26 years old to continue his education. In his return to Paris, he decorated some of the private houses and his rich Parisian work made him in high prestige at the Napoleon court.
His paintings Josephine painted her, not as a queen, but as a lovely and beautiful woman, which led some people to think he might have fallen in love with her. After Napoleon and Josephine divorced, he was also hired by the second wife of Marie - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -.
Prud'hon is in the second place to be significantly influenced by Neo classicism, romanticism at other times. Other artists and writers love to appreciate Stendhal, Delacroix, Miller and Baudelaire for his chiaroscuro and convincing realism, he is probably the most famous of his crucifixion (1822), which he painted the Cathedral of Saint Etienne in metz. The crucifixion is now hanging in Le Louvre museum.
Young Theodore Jellico has by Prud'hon, the "tragic picture" as thunder including his masterpiece, painting reproductions of works of justice and divine vengeance pursuing crime, the oppression of the darkness and a basic body of stay naked, lying on the raft Gericault clearly foresee painting medusa.