Warrior Seizing a Kneeling Figure
1775/80
Artist, French, 1748 - 1825

Artwork overview
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Medium
black chalk on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 13.4 x 16.2 cm (5 1/4 x 6 3/8 in.)
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Accession
1998.105.1.j
Associated Artworks
See all 85 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Estate of the artist (sale, Paris, 17 April 1826, under no. 66; withdrawn); Mme.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, 256-258, 291, no. 112a.
Bibliography
2000
Rosenberg, Pierre. From Drawing to Painting: Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, David, and Ingres. The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1996, Series XXI. Princeton, 2000: 39, fig. 42 (the album page).
2002
Rosenberg, Pierre, and Louis-Antoine Prat. Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825: Catalogue raisonné des dessins. 2 vols. Milan, 2002, 1: no. 598.
Inscriptions
lower left: paraphes of E.D. and J.D.
Wikidata ID
Q64580145