Louis-Antoine Prat (born 24 December 1944 in Nice) is a French art historian and art collector, specialized in drawings.
Early life and education Louis-Antoine Prat is the son of Georges Prat, a wealthy French businessman. Georges was an art collector: he possessed paintings, sculptures, furniture and drawings.
Georges Prat died when Louis-Antoine Prat was six years old. He studied in both La Sorbonne and Sciences Po. He then followed the courses of the École du Louvre.
The collection Regularly exposed in France or other countries,1990-1991: New-York, Forth-Worth, Pittsburgh, Ottawa / 1995: Edimbourg, Oxford / 2004-2005: Los Angeles, Toleda, Naples, Philadelphia, Charleston / 2007: Barcelone / 2010: Sydney (site Lugt) the art collection of Louis-Antoine and Véronique Prat in their apartment of the 7th arrondissement of Paris has often been the subject of publications.
Their collection is mainly directed towards French drawings from 1600 to 1900. The first drawing bought by Louis and Veronique was a portrait of Max Ernst by André Breton, coming from the collection of Valentine Hugo. They donated a lot of their collection to French museums under usufruct. He is the first private art collector to have been exposed while living in the Louvre museum.
Louis-Antoine Prat was elected president of the Société des amis du Louvre in 2016.
Selected works Novels and short stories Les points de repère, Albin Michel, 1965 L'amateur d'absolu, La Table Ronde, 1983 La ciguë avec toi, La Table Ronde, 1984 Un requiem allemand, La Table Ronde, 1985 Trois reflets d'Argentine, La Table Ronde, 1986 Le tombeau du nouvelliste : nouvelles, La Table Ronde, 1988 Belle encore et autres nouvelles, Somogy, 2019
Radio drama La trahison, France Culture, 1969 La leçon d’histoire, France Culture, 1969 (with D.-P. Larger) Parfois deux sans trois, France Culture, 1970 Pourquoi Fleur pleurait-elle ?, France Culture, 1971 Nuit de guerre au Louvre, Samsa, 2019
Art history Nicolas Poussin, 1594-1665, Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan, Leonardo, 1994, 2 volumes (with Pierre Rosenberg) Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721, Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan, Leonardo, 1996, 3 tomes (with P. Rosenberg) Dessins romantiques français provenant de collections privées parisiennes, Paris, Musée de la Vie Romantique, 2001 Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825, Catalogue raisonné des Dessins, Milan, Electa, 2002, 2 volumes (with Pierre Rosenberg) Théodore Chassériau. Obras sobre papel - Œuvres sur papier, Saint Domingue, 2004 Ingres, Paris, Louvre, collection Cabinet des Dessins, n° 4, 2004 Jacques-Louis David, Paris, Louvre, collection Cabinet des Dessins, n° 9, 2005 (with A. Serullaz) Ingres, Paris, Louvre, 2006 La collection Chennevières. Quatre siècles de dessins français, Paris, 2007 Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Paris, 2011 Paul Delaroche, Le cabinet des Dessins, Editions Louvre-Le Passage, Paris, Louvre, 2012 Le dessin français au XVIIe siècle, Paris Le dessin français au XVIIIe siècle, Paris Officier et gentleman au 19e siècle: la collection His de la Salle, Paris, 2019
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