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Jacques-Louis David

Artist, French, 1748 - 1825

Jacques-Louis David

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with gray wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    Overall (approximate): 21.2 x 13.7 cm (8 3/8 x 5 3/8 in.)
    support: 24 x 15.8 cm (9 7/16 x 6 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1980.21.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rosenberg and Prat 2002, no. 687

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jules David (Lugt 1437)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2022

  • Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2022, no. 11.

Bibliography

1978

  • Paris, Paul Prouté. Dessins Originaux: Anciens et Modernes. 1978: no. 58.

1979

  • Paris, Galerie de Bayser. Louis David 1748-1825, Dessins du premier sejour romain 1755-1780. 1-15, Dec. 1979: Lot 18.

2002

  • Rosenberg, Pierre, and Louis-Antoine Prat. Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825: Catalogue raisonné des dessins. 2 vols. Milan, 2002, 1: 519, no. 687.

2012

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan, and Andrew Robison. Color, Line, Light: French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels from Delacroix to Signac. Exh. cat. Musée des impressionnismes Giverny and National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: xi, xii, fig. 2.

Inscriptions

in unknown hand, lower right in ink: JD[avid]; in unknownhand, across bottom in brown ink on mount: 6e = quatre [De puis?]; in later hand, upper left verso on mount: 17

Wikidata ID

Q64580130

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