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Jacques-Louis David

Two Studies of the Head of a Young Man Crowned with a Laurel Wreath, 1775/1780

Not on View

Medium

black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 11.75 × 18.1 cm (4 5/8 × 7 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Bequest of William B. Jordan and Robert Dean Brownlee

Catalogue Raisonné

Rosenberg and Prat 2002, no. 13

Accession Number

2019.45.9

Artists / Makers

Jacques-Louis David (artist) French, 1748 - 1825

Image Use

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Inscription

on attached sheet in brown ink, by the hand of David's student and biographer: Ce croquis fait à Rome par L. David, m'a été donné par lui en / 1813. [large space] E. J. Delécluze [sheet was separated from drawing in 2021, and is stored in a separate folder]

Provenance

Étienne-Jean Delécluze [1781-1863]; Albert Vaudoyer [1874-1947], according to Baschet 1942. (Galerie Jean-François and Philippe Heim, Paris, by 1990); (anonymous sale, Sotheby's, Monaco, 5 December 1992, no. 146, unsold); (anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 12 January 1994, no. 212); William B. Jordan and Robert Dean Brownlee, Dallas, TX; bequest to NGA, 2019.

Associated Names

Brownlee, Robert and Jordan, William

Exhibition History

1990: Peintures, aquarelles, dessins, 1755-1891: exposition printemps 1990. Jean-François and Philippe Heim, Paris, 1990, pp. 8-9 (reprod.).

2014: Mind's Eye: Masterworks on Paper from David to Cézanne. Dallas Museum of Art, 2014, no. 3 (color)(entry by Louis-Antoine Prat).

2022: Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2022, no. 12.

Bibliography

1855: Delécluze, Etienne-Jean. Louis David, son école et son temps. Paris, 1855: 112.

1899: Duguet, Roger. Les contemporains. Louis David. Paris, 1899: 4.

1925: Saunier, Charles. "Les dessins de David," L'Art vivant no. 24, 15 December 1925: p. 13.

1929: Saunier, Charles. "Le dessin de Louis David," Le dessin, no. 15, September 1929: 410.

1942: Baschet, Robert. E. J. Delécluze, témoin de son temps. Paris, 1942: 31, reprod. opp. p. 272.

1954: Hautecoeur, Louis. Louis David. Paris, 1954: 43.

1973: Wildenstein, Daniel, and Guy Wildenstein. Documents complémentaires au catalogue de l'euvre de Louis David. Paris, 1973: 175-176, no. 1 515.

1975: Howard, Seymour. A Classical Frieze by Jacques Louis David. Sacramento, 1975: 16.

1979: Bordes, Philippe. "Dessins perdus de David, dont un pour "la Mort de Socrate," lithographiés par Debret," Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art français, Année 1979. Paris, 1981: 183-184, note 23.

1980: Schnapper, Antoine. David témoin de son temps. Fribourg, 1980: 45-46.

1989: Néret, Gilles. David: La terreur et la vertu. Paris, 1989: 23.

1989: Sérullaz, Arlette. "Le séjour à Rome," in Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825, exh. cat. Paris, Musée du Louvre (1989): 68-69, fig. 35.

1994: Montagu, Jennifer. The Expression of the Passions: The Origin and Influence of Charles Le Brun's "Conférence sur l'expression générale et particulière. New Haven, 1994: 97-98, fig. 129.

2000: Rosenberg, Pierre. From Drawing to Painting: Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, David, and Ingres. Princeton, 2000: 62, fig. 76.

2002: Rosenberg, Pierre, and Louis-Antoine Prat. Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825: Catalogue raisonné des dessins. 2 vols. Milan, 2002, no. 13.

2011: Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris, 2011: 28, fig. 39.