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image of The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Jacques-Louis David (artist)
French, 1748 - 1825
The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries, 1812
oil on canvas
Overall: 203.9 x 125.1 cm (80 1/4 x 49 1/4 in.) framed: 243.9 x 165.1 x 15.2 cm (96 x 65 x 6 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1961.9.15
On View
From the Tour: 18th- and 19th-Century France — Neoclassicism
Object 3 of 7
1824Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de M. J.-L. David. Paris, 1824: 72.
1826A. Th. (Antoine Thibaudeau or Aimé Thomé de Gamond). Vie de David, Premier Peintre de Napoléon. Brussels, 1826: 184.
1826Mahul, A. Annuaire nécrologique, ou complément annuel et continuation de toutes les biographies ou dictionnaires historiques, ... Année 1825. Paris, 1826: 140.
1827Coupin, P.A. "Essai sur J.-L. David, peintre d'histoire." Revue encyclopédique. 61 vols. Paris, 1819-1835: 31:56.
1835Lenoir, Alexandre. "David. Souvenirs historiques." Journal de l'Institut Historique 3 (1835): 10.
1844Philippoteaux, F. Le Siècle de Napoléon, galerie des illustrations de l'Empire. Paris, 1844: unpaginated.
1845Blanc, Charles. Histoire des peintres français au dix-neuvième siècle. Paris, 1845: 211.
1846"Le Napoléon de David." L'Illustration, 7 December 1846: 272.
1846Marco de Saint-Hilaire, Emile. Souvenirs intimes du temps de l'Empire. Paris, 1846: 131-135.
1854Waagen, Gustav Friedrich. Treasures of Art in Great Britain. Translated by Lady Eastlake. 3 vols. London, 1854: 3:298.
1855Delécluze, Etienne J. Louis David son école & son temps. Paris, 1855: 346-347.
1864Seigneur, Jean du. "Appendice à la notice de P. Chaussard sur L. David." Revue universelle des arts 18 (1864): 365.
1867David, Jules. Notice sur le Marat de Louis David suivie de la liste de ses tableaux dressée par lui-meme. Paris, 1867: 37.
1880David, Jules. Le peintre Louis David, 1748-1825. Paris, 1880: 487, 647.
1895Dayot, Armand. Napoléon raconté par l'image. Paris, 1895: 259-263.
1904Saunier, Charles. Louis David, biographie critique. Paris, 1904: 108.
1930Cantinelli, Richard. Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825. Paris and Brussels, 1930: 112, no. 123.
1940Holma, Klaus. David, son évolution et son style. Paris, 1940: 79-80, 128, no. 129.
1941Ledoux, C., and G. Lebard. "La décoration et l'ameublement du Grand Cabinet de Napoléon Ier aux Tuileries." Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français 192 (1941): no. 1.
1948Cooper, Douglas. "Jacques-Louis David: A Bi-Centenary Exhibition." The Burlington Magazine 90 (1948): 277-280, repro.
1948The Arts Council of Great Britain. David, 1748-1825. Exh. cat. Tate Gallery, London, and City Art Gallery, Manchester, 1948:26, no. 23, repro.
1949Cooper, Douglas. "Letters - Jacques-Louis David." The Burlington Magazine 91 (1949): 175.
1949Cooper, Douglas. "The David Exhibition at the Tate Gallery." The Burlington Magazine 91 (1949): 21-22.
1949Rosenau, Helen. "Letters - Jacques-Louis David." The Burlington Magazine 91 (1949): 113-114.
1952Ledoux, C., and G. Lebard. "L'inventaire des appartements de l'empereur de Napoléon Ier aux Tuileries." Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français (1952): 186-204, esp. 192
1954Hautecoeur, Louis. Louis David. Paris, 1954: 200.
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: 64-67, no. 22, repro.
1957Goodrich, Frank B. The Court of Napoleon. New York, 1957: 300-302.
1959Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 374, repro.
1960The National Gallery of Art and Its Collections. Foreword by Perry B. Cott and notes by Otto Stelzer. National Gallery of Art, Washington (undated, 1960s): 10, repro.
1961Seymour, Charles. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 193-194, color pl. 184.
1962Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Treasures from the National Gallery of Art, New York, 1962: 116, color repro.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 242, repro.
1964Markham, F. "Napoleon and his Painters." Apollo 80 (September 1964): 187-191.
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: 2:398, color repro.
1967Gonzales-Palacios, Alvar. David e la pittura napoleonica. Milan, 1967: 14, repro.
1968Honour, Hugh. Neoclassicism. Harmondsworth, 1968: 178-179, repro.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 31, repro.
1969Hubert, Nicole, et al. Napoleon Exh. cat. Grand Palais, Paris, 1969: 51, no. 158, repro.
1969Kirstein, Lincoln. "The Taste of Napoleon." Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum Bulletin 4, no. 10 (1969): 21.
1969Mesplé, Paul. "David et ses élèves toulousains." Archives de l'art français, 4th series, 24 (1969): 100-101.
1973Verbraeken, Rene. Jacques-Louis David jugé par ses contemporains et par la posterité. Paris, 1973: 11, 18, repro.
1973Wildenstein, Daniel, and Guy Wildenstein. Documents complémentaires au catalogue de l'oeuvre de Louis David. Paris, 1973: 190-191, 226, nos. 1642, 1645, 1648, 1651, 1938.
1974Schnapper, Antoine, et al. De David à Delacroix. La peinture française de 1774 à 1830. Exh. cat. Grand Palais, Paris, 1974: unpaginated insert, no. 36 bis, repro.
1975Burney, Fanny (Mme d'Arblay). Hemlow, Joyce, ed. The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney. Oxford, 1975: 6:620-626.
1975Haskell, Francis. "Un monument et ses mystères. L'art français et l'opinion anglaise dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle." Revue de l'Art 30 (1975): 61-76.
1975Schnapper, Antoine, et al. French Painting 1774-1830: The Age of Revolution. Exh. cat. Detroit Institute of Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975:373-374, no. 36 bis, repro.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 96, repro.
1977Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 352-358, fig. 331-333, color repro.
1979Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 102, pl. 89, color repro.
1980Brookner, Anita. Jacques-Louis David. London, 1980: 168-169, repro.
1980Schnapper, Antoine. David témoin de son temps. Fribourg, 1980: 260-262, repro. (English translation, David, New York, 1980: 260-262, repro.
1982Bleyl, M. Das Klassizistische Porträt. Gestaltungsanalyse am Beispiel J.-L. Davids in Bochumer Schriftern zur Kunstgeschichte. Frankfurt and Bern, 1982: I:86-87, repro.
1983Bordes, Philippe, and A. Pougetoux. "Les portraits de Napoléon en habits impériaux par Jacques-Louis David." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6th series, no. 102 (July-August 1983): 26-27.
1983Tait, A.A. "The Duke of Hamilton's Palace." The Burlington Magazine 125 (1983):400-402
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 416, no. 593, color repro.
1985Nanteuil, Luc de. Jacques-Louis David. New York, 1985: 146, repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 117, repro.
1988Michel, Régis, and Marie-Catherine Sahur. David, l'art et le politique. Paris, 1988: 112, repro.
1989Lévêque, Jean-Jacques. La vie et l'oeuvre de Jacques-Louis David. Courbevoye-Paris, 1989: 18, repro.
1989Roberts, Warren. Jacques-Louis David, Revolutionary Artist. Chapel Hill, 1989: 171-173, repro.
1989Schnapper, Antoine. Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825. Exh. cat. Musée du Louvre and Musée National du Chateau de Versailles:474-477, 520-521, nos. 206, 207, repro.
1992National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 176, repro.
1993Johnson, Dorothy. Jacques-Louis David: Art in Metamorphosis. Princeton, 1993: 216-220, repro.
1997ARS, L'Arte e La Storia: Il Piacere di Capire, Milano, 1997: 35, repro.
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: 196-208, color repro.
2005The Arts of France from François Ier to Napoléon Ier. A Centennial Celebration of Wildenstein's Presence in New York. Exh. cat. Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York, 2005: 11-12, fig. 4, 64, fig. 81, 74(not in the exhibition).

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