A Distraught Woman with Her Head Thrown Back

1775/80

Jacques-Louis David

Artist, French, 1748 - 1825

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with gray wash over black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 19.6 x 15 cm (7 11/16 x 5 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1998.105.1.bbb

Associated Artworks

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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Estate of the artist (sale, Paris, 17 April 1826, under no. 66; withdrawn); Mme.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, 256-258, 261, 291, no. 112d (color).

Bibliography

2002

  • Rosenberg, Pierre, and Louis-Antoine Prat. Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825: Catalogue raisonné des dessins. 2 vols. Milan, 2002, 1: no. 642.

Inscriptions

upper right in black ink: 27; lower left: paraphes of E.D. and J.D.

Wikidata ID

Q64580199

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