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Jacques-Louis David

Thirius de Pautrizel, June or July 1795

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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

Dimensions

overall (diameter): 19.2 cm (7 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Catalogue Raisonné

Rosenberg and Prat 2002, no. 152

Accession Number

1990.47.2

Artists / Makers

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

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Inscription

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

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

Baer, Curtis O.
Baer, George M., Dr. and Mrs.
Wildenstein & Co., Inc.

Exhibition History

1957: Exposición de dibujos del Renacimiento al siglo XX, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela, 1957, no. 8.

1957: 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.

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.