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image of Madame David
Jacques-Louis David
French, 1748 - 1825
Madame David, 1813
oil on canvas
Overall: 72.9 x 59.4 cm (28 11/16 x 23 3/8 in.) framed: 93.6 x 79.7 x 9.5 cm (36 7/8 x 31 3/8 x 3 3/4 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1961.9.14
From the Tour: 18th- and 19th-Century France — Neoclassicism
Object 4 of 7
1824Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de M. J.-L. David. Paris, 1824: 21.
1826Mahul, A. Annuaire necrologique, ou complement annuel et continuation de toutes les biographies ou dictionnnaires historiques....Année 1825. Paris, 1826: 141.
1826Th. A. Vie de David, Premier Peintre de Napoléon. Brussels, 1826: 242 (Paris edition, 1826: 166).
1827Coupin, P.A. "Essai sur J.-L. David, peintre d'histoire." Revue enciclopédique XXXIV (1827): 56.
1846Thoré, Theophile. Le Salon de 1846. Paris, 1846: 12.
1855Delécluze, Etienne-Jean. Louis David, son école et son temps. Paris, 1855: 354.
1864Seigner, Jean du. "Appendice à la notice de P. Chaussard sur L. David." Revue universelle des arts XVIII (1864): 367.
1880David, Jules. Le peintre Louis David, 1748-1825. Paris, 1880: 2320-231, 487, 648.
1904Rosenthal, Leon. David. Paris, 1904: 132, 166.
1904Saunier, Charles. Louis David. Biographie critique. Paris, 1904: 107.
1913Pauli, Gustav. "David im Petit Palais." Kunst und Kunstler XI: 541-550.
1913Rosenthal, Leon. "L'Exposition de David et de ses élèves au Petit Palais." Revue de l'Art Ancien et Moderne XXXIII (1913): 342.
1930Cantinelli, Richard. Jacques-Louis David. Paris and Brussels, 1930: 81, 113, no. 132, no. 75, repro.
1940Holma, Klaus. David, son évolution et son style. Paris, 1940: 90, 129, no. 138.
1943Maret, Jacques. Louis David. Monaco, 1943: pl. 85.
1943Brest, Jorge Romero. Jacques-Louis David. Buenos Aires, 1943: 23.
1948Cooper, Douglas. "Jacques-Louis David: A Bi-Centenary Exhibition." The Burlington Magazine XC: 278, repro. frontispiece.
1948Florisoone, Michel. David. Exposition en l'honneur du deuxième centenaire de sa naissance. Exh. cat. Musée de l'Orangerie. Paris, 1948: no. M.O. 68.
1954Hautecoeur, Louis. Louis David. Paris, 1954: 230.
1956Einstein, Lewis."Looking at French Eighteenth Century Pictures in Washington." Gazette des Beaux-Arts, VIe période, tome XLVII (May-June 1956): 245, 250, repro.
1956Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Colllection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1951-56. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida and Fern Rusk Shapley. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1956: 68, no. 23, repro.
1957Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): pl. 97.
1959Wildenstein, Georges. "Les Davidiens à Paris sous la Restauration." Gazette des Beaux-Arts VIe période, tome LIII (April 1959): 242-245, repro.
1963Cailleux 1912-1962. Album du jubilé de la Galerie Cailleux. Paris, 1963: unpaginated, repro.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 322, repro.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 38.
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:400, color repro.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 31, repro.
1973Verbraeken, René. Jacques-Louis David jugé par ses contemporains et par la posterité. Paris, 1973: 23, repro.
1973Wildenstein, Daniel, and Guy Wildenstein. Documents complémentaires au catalogue de l'oeuvre de Louis David. Paris, 1973: no. 2071.
1975Burney, Fanny. Joyce Hemlow, ed. The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame d'Arblay). 6 vols. Oxford, 1975: 623-626.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 94, repro.
1977Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 358-359, fig. 330.
1980Brookner, Anita. Jacques-Louis David. London, 1980: 169-170, repro.
1980Schnapper, Antoine. David témoin de son temps. Fribourg, 1980: 265, repro. (English translation, David, New York, 1980: 265, repro.).
1983Gassier, Pierre. Léopold Robert. Neuchâtel, 1983: 15 (repro. of Robert's engraving), 20.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 418, no. 594, color repro.
1985de Nanteuil, Luc. Jacques-Louis David. New York, 1985: 150, repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 116, repro.
1989Lévecque, Jean-Jacques. La vie et l'oeuvre de Jacques-Louis David. Courbevoie-Paris, 1989: 210, repro.
1989Roberts, Warren. Jacques-Louis David, Revolutionary Artst. Chapel Hill, 1989: 171, repro.
1989Schnapper, Antoine, et al. Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825. Exh. cat. Louvre and Versailles. Paris, 1989: 484, no. 213, repro.
1998Ternois, Daniel. Ingres: Monsieur Bertin. Paris, 1998: 38-39, repro.
1998Monneret, Sophie. David et le Neoclassicisme. Terrail, 1998: 140-146, repro. 145.
2000Eitner, Lorenz. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I: Before Impressionism. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 208-213, color repro.

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