Roman Album No. 4: Italian Landscapes and Antiquities
1775/80
Artist, French, 1748 - 1825
Jacques-Louis David
Artwork overview
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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
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Credit Line
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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 Number
1998.105.1
Associated Artworks
See all 86 artworksA Muse and Two Female Figures
Jacques-Louis David
1775
Women at an Altar
Jacques-Louis David
1775
Hera and Ceres, from the Vatican
Jacques-Louis David
1775
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Estate of the artist (sale, Paris, 17 April 1826, under no. 66; withdrawn); Mme.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