Vivant Denon

Denon, Dominique-Vivant the Baron

French, 1747 - 1825

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French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist (1747-1825)

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Vivant Denon, Profile Head of a Man in a Turban, 1820, lithograph on wove paper, Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp, 1999.111.15

Profile Head of a Man in a Turban

Vivant Denon · 1820 · lithograph on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1999.111.15

Vivant Denon, Girl with a Mask, 1820, lithograph, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Benedict, 1975.105.3

Girl with a Mask

Vivant Denon · 1820 · lithograph ·  Accession ID  1975.105.3

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Oeuvres de Salomon Gessner (volume III)

Louis Petit, Jean-Baptiste Blaise Simonet, Philippe Triere, Vivant Denon, Augustin de Saint-Aubin, Various Artists, Salomon Gessner, Pierre-Charles Baquoy, Jean Dambrun, Remi-Henri-Joseph Delvaux, Jean-Baptiste-Michel Dupreel, Emmanuel Jean Nepomucène de Ghendt, Abraham Girardet, Noël Le Mire · published 1799 · 1 vol: ill: etchings and engravings (includes trial proofs) ·  Accession ID  1942.9.1557

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Oeuvres de Salomon Gessner (volume I)

Various Artists, Salomon Gessner, Pierre-Charles Baquoy, Jean Dambrun, Remi-Henri-Joseph Delvaux, Jean-Baptiste-Michel Dupreel, Emmanuel Jean Nepomucène de Ghendt, Abraham Girardet, Noël Le Mire, Louis Petit, Jean-Baptiste Blaise Simonet, Philippe Triere, Vivant Denon, Louis Michel Van Loo, Augustin de Saint-Aubin · published 1799 · 1 vol: ill: etchings and engravings (includes trial proofs) ·  Accession ID  1942.9.1555

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Oeuvres de Salomon Gessner (volume IV)

Emmanuel Jean Nepomucène de Ghendt, Abraham Girardet, Noël Le Mire, Louis Petit, Jean-Baptiste Blaise Simonet, Philippe Triere, Vivant Denon, Augustin de Saint-Aubin, Various Artists, Salomon Gessner, Pierre-Charles Baquoy, Jean Dambrun, Remi-Henri-Joseph Delvaux, Jean-Baptiste-Michel Dupreel · published 1799 · 1 vol: ill: etchings and engravings (includes trial proofs) ·  Accession ID  1942.9.1558

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Oeuvres de Salomon Gessner (volume II)

Various Artists, Salomon Gessner, Pierre-Charles Baquoy, Jean Dambrun, Remi-Henri-Joseph Delvaux, Jean-Baptiste-Michel Dupreel, Emmanuel Jean Nepomucène de Ghendt, Abraham Girardet, Noël Le Mire, Louis Petit, Jean-Baptiste Blaise Simonet, Philippe Triere, Vivant Denon, Augustin de Saint-Aubin · published 1799 · 1 vol: ill: etchings and engravings (includes trial proofs) ·  Accession ID  1942.9.1556

Vivant Denon, A Young Woman Sewing [recto], c. 1790, pen and brown ink over graphite on gray-blue paper, Gift of The Christian Humann Foundation, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.215.1.a

A Young Woman Sewing [recto]

Vivant Denon · c. 1790 · pen and brown ink over graphite on gray-blue paper ·  Accession ID  1991.215.1.a

Vivant Denon, A Horseman Wearing a Grande Cockade [verso], c. 1790, graphite on gray-blue paper, Gift of The Christian Humann Foundation, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.215.1.b

A Horseman Wearing a Grande Cockade [verso]

Vivant Denon · c. 1790 · graphite on gray-blue paper ·  Accession ID  1991.215.1.b

Vivant Denon, Anne-Dorothée, Duchesse de Courlande, 1790s, etching on laid paper, Katharine Shepard Fund, 2012.71.3

Anne-Dorothée, Duchesse de Courlande

Vivant Denon · 1790s · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2012.71.3

Vivant Denon, Woman Painter at Easel, etching, Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg, 2011.139.8

Woman Painter at Easel

Vivant Denon · · etching ·  Accession ID  2011.139.8

Bibliography

1877

  • Clément de Ris, Louis Torterat. Les amateurs d'autrefois. Paris, 1877: 315-341 (reprint Geneva, 1973).

1973

  • Chatelain, Jean. Dominique Vivant Denon et le Louvre de Napoleon. Paris, 1973.

1993

  • Lelièvre, Pierre. Vivant Denon: homme des lumières 'ministre des arts' de Napoleon. Paris, 1993