Thirius de Pautrizel
June or July 1795
Jacques-Louis David
Artist, French, 1748 - 1825
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and gray ink with gray wash and pale brown wash (on the face) over touches of graphite, heightened with white gouache on laid paper, laid down on an old circular mount
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (diameter): 19.2 cm (7 9/16 in.)
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Accession Number
1990.47.2
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Catalogue Raisonné
Rosenberg and Prat 2002, no. 152
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Gairac Collection, Paris; (Wildenstein and Co., New York), 1961; Curtis O. Baer [1898-1976]; by descent to Dr. and Mrs. George Baer; designated purchase by NGA with funds contributed by Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1990.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1957
Exposición de dibujos del Renacimiento al siglo XX, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela, 1957, no. 8.
Fragonard-David, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, 1957, no. 32.
1961
An Exhibition of French Masters: Rococo to Romanticism. UCLA Art Galleries, 1961, no. 61.
1981
Drawings from Georgia Collections, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1981, no. 1.
1985
Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso: The Curtis O. Baer Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD; and Frederick Wight Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA,1985-1987, no. 66.
1989
Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825. Musée du Louvre, Paris, and Musée national du château, Versailles. Paris, 1989, no. 134.
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991, pp. 120-121 (entry by Margaret Morgan Grasselli).
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 262-263, 291, no. 113 (color).
2022
Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2022, no. 63.
2025
Jacques-Louis David, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France, 2025, cat. 56, repro.
Bibliography
1991
Sérullaz, Arlette. Musée du Louvre, Cabinet des dessins. Inventaire général des dessins: École française, dessins de Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825. Paris, 1991: under no. 204.
1994
Lajer-Burcharth, Ewa. "The Aesthetics of Male Crisis: The Terror in the Republican Imaginary and In Jacques-Louis David's Work from Prison." In Gillian Perry and Michael Rossington, eds., Femininity and Masculinity in EIghteenth-Century Art and Culture. Manchester and New York, 1994: 226, 240 note 15.
1999
Lajer-Burcharth, Ewa. Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David after the Terror. New York, 1999: 89, 92, fig. 42, 100-101, 103-104, 116.
2002
Rosenberg, Pierre, and Louis-Antoine Prat. Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825: Catalogue raisonné des dessins. 2 vols. Milan, 2002, 1: 170, no. 152.
2011
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris, 2011: 54.
2025
Allard, Sébastien, editor._ Jacques-Louis, David_. Exh. cat. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France, 2025: cat. 56, fig. 104, 192.
Inscriptions
signed at lower right in pen and black ink: L David; by later hand, around circumference in brown ink: THIRUS DE PAUTRIZEL, Capitaine de Cavallerie en 1785, Représentant de la NATION FRANCAISE en 1794 e t 1795.; lower center verso in graphite: A66
Wikidata ID
Q64580132