The Pantheon Seen from the Piazza
1775/80
Artist, French, 1748 - 1825

Artwork overview
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Medium
black ink and gray wash over graphite on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 15.3 x 21 cm (6 x 8 1/4 in.)
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Accession
1998.105.1.kk
Associated Artworks
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Jacques-Louis David
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Women at an Altar
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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Estate of the artist (sale, Paris, 17 April 1826, under no. 66; withdrawn); Mme.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, 256-259, 291, no. 112b (color).
2022
Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2022, no. 6.
Bibliography
2002
Rosenberg, Pierre, and Louis-Antoine Prat. Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825: Catalogue raisonné des dessins. 2 vols. Milan, 2002, 1: no. 625.
Inscriptions
lower right in black ink: place de la Rotonde / ou pantheon; by later hand, upper right in graphite: Pantéon; lower left: paraphes of E.D. and J.D.
Wikidata ID
Q64580178