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Inscription

across bottom in black ink: sur un sarcophage au museum du pape; lower right in black ink: 46; lower left: paraphes of E.D. and J.D.

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Estate of the artist (sale, Paris, 17 April 1826, under no. 66; withdrawn); Mme.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.

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 (color).

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. 602.

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