Roman Album No. 4: Italian Landscapes and Antiquities

1775/80

Jacques-Louis David

Artist, French, 1748 - 1825

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    album of 61 drawings and 21 tracings in an album consisting of 22 pages in all, with 21 rectos and 2 versos bearing drawings

  • Credit Line

    Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall (size of closed album): 52.2 x 35.5 cm (20 9/16 x 14 in.)
    page size (greenish pages): 48.6 x 33 cm (19 1/8 x 13 in.)
    page size (white pages): 50.5 x 33.4 cm (19 7/8 x 13 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1998.105.1

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A Muse and Two Female Figures

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Women at an Altar

Jacques-Louis David

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Hera and Ceres, from the Vatican

Jacques-Louis David

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Estate of the artist (sale, Paris, 17 April 1826, under no. 66; withdrawn); Mme. David (sale, Paris, 11 March 1835, under no. 16); purchased by one of David's pupils, Mlle. X (name obliterated);[1] by descent in her family; (Bruno de Bayser, Paris); purchased 1998 by NGA.
[1] According to inscription on flyleaf.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, no.

Bibliography

1826

  • "Inventaire après le décès de Mme. David." June 27, 1826. Manuscript inventory in Archives Nationales, Paris, Minutier central, fonds CVIII.

1989

  • Sérullaz, Arlette. "Les Dessins du premier séjour romain." In Jacques-Louis David, 1748 - 1825. Paris, 1989: 65.

1991

  • Sérullaz, Arlette. Dessins de Jacques-Louis David. Paris, 1991: 11.

1993

  • Campbell, Richard, et al. Visions of Antiquity: Neoclassical Figure Drawings. Los Angeles, 1993: 192.

2000

  • Rosenberg, Pierre. From Drawing to Painting: Poussin, Watteau, Fraongard, David & Ingres. Princeton, 2000: 40, fig. 42 (reproducing the fourth folio of album 4 with five drawings, inv. nos. 1998.105.1.j, .k, .l, .m, .n).

2002

  • Rosenberg, Pierre, and Louis-Antoine Prat. Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825: Catalogue raisonné des dessins. 2 vols. Milan, 2002, 1: nos. 589-670, 477-507.

2010

  • Stein, Perrin. "French Drawings, Washington," The Burlington Magazine 102 (January 2010): 67.

Inscriptions

in later hand, upper center of cover in brown ink: No. 4; in later hand, upper center of cover in red ink: DAVID; in later hands, across top of first page in brown ink: No. 4 / Contenant 23 feuillets sur les quelles tout collés ou dessinés / soixante douze dessins et vingt calques / Verifié et reconnu exact / Ces dessins proviennant de la succession de Mlle. [name scraped away] / qui etudia dans l'atelier David à Roma.. In another hand: La premiere page manque / Il y a en tout cinquante huit dessins et vingt calques.. / Verifié ce premier novembre 1888; in later hand, under "cinquante huit" in graphite: 59

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