Inscription
lower left: L. David. 1813.
Provenance
Bequeathed in 1826 by the sitter, Marguerite-Charlotte David, née Pécoul [1764-1826],[1] to her daughter, Baronne Claude-Marie Meunier, née Laure-Emilie-Félicité David [1786-1863], Calais;[2] her daughter-in-law, Baronne Jules Meunier, née Pauline Derode [1824-1903], Calais; the artist's great-granddaughter, Mme. Marius Bianchi, née Mathilde Jeanin, by 1913;[3] her daughter, Caroline-Pauline-Thérèse, Comtesse Joachim Murat [1870-1940], by 1930;[4] her sister, Renée, vicomtesse de Fleury [1869-1948]; (Pierre Cailleux, Paris), 1948-1953.[5] Jointly owned from 1953 by (Otto Wertheimer [Galerie les Tourettes], Paris) and (M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York);[6] sold 1954 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[7] gift 1961 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1846
- Exposition au profit de l'Association des Artistes, Peintres, et Sculpteurs, Bazar Bonne Nouvelle, Paris, 1846, no. 11
- 1913
- David et ses elèves, Petit Palais, Paris, 1913, no. 56, repro.
- 1914
- Exposition d'art français du XIX siècle, Musée Royal de Copenhague, Copenhagen, 1914, no. 65
- 1948
- David. Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, The Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery, London, and City Art Gallery, Manchester, 1948-1949, no. 27, repro.
- 1948
- David. Exposition en honneur du deuxième centenaire de sa naissance, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 1948, no. 68
- 1949
- Exposition des magiciens de la peinture, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1949, no. 13
- 1950
- Cent portraits de femmes, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1950, no. 25c, repro.
- 1952
- Meisterwerke de französichen Malerie von Poussin bis Ingres, Kunsthalle, Hamburg and Alte Pinakothek, Munich, 1952, no. 14, repro.
- 1952
- Peintres de portraits, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1952, no. 16
- 1989
- Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1989-1990, no. 213, repro.
- 2005
- Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 2005, no. 23, repro., as Portrait of Marguerite-Charlotte David, née Pécoul.
Bibliography
- 1824
- Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de M. J.-L. David. Paris, 1824: 21.
- 1826
- Mahul, A. Annuaire necrologique, ou complement annuel et continuation de toutes les biographies ou dictionnnaires historiques....Année 1825. Paris, 1826: 141.
- 1826
- Th. A. Vie de David, Premier Peintre de Napoléon. Brussels, 1826: 242 (Paris edition, 1826: 166).
- 1827
- Coupin, P.A. "Essai sur J.-L. David, peintre d'histoire." Revue encyclopédique. 61 vols. Paris, 1819-1835: 31(1926):56.
- 1846
- Thoré, Theophile. Le Salon de 1846. Paris, 1846: 12.
- 1855
- Delécluze, Etienne-Jean. Louis David, son école et son temps. Paris, 1855: 354.
- 1864
- Seigner, Jean du. "Appendice à la notice de P. Chaussard sur L. David." Revue universelle des arts XVIII (1864): 367.
- 1880
- David, Jules. Le peintre Louis David, 1748-1825. Paris, 1880: 2320-231, 487, 648.
- 1904
- Saunier, Charles. Louis David. Biographie critique. Paris, 1904: 107.
- 1913
- Pauli, Gustav. "David im Petit Palais." Kunst und Kunstler XI: 541-550.
- 1913
- Rosenthal, Leon. "L'Exposition de David et de ses élèves au Petit Palais." Revue de l'Art Ancien et Moderne XXXIII (1913): 342.
- 1930
- Cantinelli, Richard. Jacques-Louis David. Paris and Brussels, 1930: 81, 113, no. 132, no. 75, repro.
- 1940
- Holma, Klaus. David, son évolution et son style. Paris, 1940: 90, 129, no. 138.
- 1943
- Brest, Jorge Romero. Jacques-Louis David. Buenos Aires, 1943: 23.
- 1943
- Maret, Jacques. Louis David. Monaco, 1943: pl. 85.
- 1948
- Cooper, Douglas. "Jacques-Louis David: A Bi-Centenary Exhibition."The Burlington Magazine 90: 278, repro. frontispiece.
- 1948
- Florisoone, Michel. David. Exposition en l'honneur du deuxième centenaire de sa naissance. Exh. cat. Musée de l'Orangerie. Paris, 1948: no. M.O. 68.
- 1954
- Hautecoeur, Louis. Louis David. Paris, 1954: 230.
- 1956
- Einstein, Lewis."Looking at French Eighteenth Century Pictures in Washington." Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 6th ser., 47. no. 1048-1049 (May-June 1956): 245, 250, repro.
- 1956
- Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1951-56. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida and Fern Rusk Shapley. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1956: 68, no. 23, repro.
- 1957
- Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): pl. 97.
- 1959
- Wildenstein, Georges. "Les Davidiens à Paris sous la Restauration." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6e période, 53 (April 1959): 242-245, repro.
- 1963
- Cailleux 1912-1962. Album du jubilé de la Galerie Cailleux. Paris, 1963: unpaginated, repro.
- 1963
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 322, repro.
- 1965
- Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 38.
- 1966
- Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:400, color repro.
- 1968
- National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 31, repro.
- 1973
- Verbraeken, René. Jacques-Louis David jugé par ses contemporains et par la posterité. Paris, 1973: 23, repro.
- 1973
- Wildenstein, Daniel, and Guy Wildenstein. Documents complémentaires au catalogue de l'oeuvre de Louis David. Paris, 1973: no. 2071.
- 1975
- Burney, Fanny. Joyce Hemlow, ed. The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame d'Arblay). 6 vols. Oxford, 1975: 623-626.
- 1975
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 94, repro.
- 1977
- Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 358-359, fig. 330.
- 1980
- Brookner, Anita. Jacques-Louis David. London, 1980: 169-170, repro.
- 1980
- Schnapper, Antoine. David témoin de son temps. Fribourg, 1980: 265, repro. (English translation, David, New York, 1980: 265, repro.).
- 1983
- Gassier, Pierre. Léopold Robert. Neuchâtel, 1983: 15 (repro. of Robert's engraving), 20.
- 1984
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 418, no. 594, color repro.
- 1985
- de Nanteuil, Luc. Jacques-Louis David. New York, 1985: 150, repro.
- 1985
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 116, repro.
- 1989
- Lévecque, Jean-Jacques. La vie et l'oeuvre de Jacques-Louis David. Courbevoie-Paris, 1989: 210, repro.
- 1989
- Roberts, Warren. Jacques-Louis David, Revolutionary Artst. Chapel Hill, 1989: 171, repro.
- 1989
- Schnapper, Antoine, et al. Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825. Exh. cat. Louvre and Versailles. Paris, 1989: 484, no. 213, repro.
- 1998
- Monneret, Sophie. David et le Neoclassicisme. Terrail, 1998: 140-146, repro. 145.
- 1998
- Ternois, Daniel. Ingres: Monsieur Bertin. Paris, 1998: 38-39, repro.
- 2000
- Eitner, Lorenz. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I: Before Impressionism. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 208-213, color repro.
- 2004
- Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 352, no. 283, color repro.
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