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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1815.13.54
People
Jacques-Louis David, French (Paris 1748 - 1825 Brussels)
Title
Napoleon Crowning Josephine (recto and verso)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook page, drawing
Date
1805-1824
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/190710

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite and black crayon on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black crayon
Dimensions
21 x 16.4 cm (8 1/4 x 6 7/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1815.13.54
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan, ed., One Hundred Master Drawings, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1949), p. 128, repr. (55 verso and 54 recto)
  • Bernard Noël, L. David, Crown Publishers Inc. (New York, NY, 1989), repr. p. 63 (pages 54 verso and 53 recto)
  • Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825: Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Leonardo Arte (Milan, 2002), cat. no. 1676, repr. recto and verso
  • Miriam Stewart, "Curating Sketchbooks: Interpretation, Preservation, Display", Recto Verso: Redefining the Sketchbook, ed. Angela Bartram, Nader El-Bizri, and Douglas Gittens, Ashgate Publishing (Surrey, England and Burlington, VT, 2014), 163-175, p. 166 and repr. as fig. 12.2
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), p. 141, repr. p. 142 as fig. 6

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

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