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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1815.12.5
People
Jacques-Louis David, French (Paris 1748 - 1825 Brussels)
Title
Hortense de Beauharnais, the Princess Louis, Holding the Hand of Her Son, Prince Napoleon-Charles; verso: Faint Sketch of a Head
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing, sketchbook page
Date
1805-1806
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/194406

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black crayon over graphite, squared in graphite, on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black crayon
Dimensions
23.7 x 17.9 cm (9 5/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: recto, lower left, brown ink : [paraph of Eugène David; Lugt 839]
  • inscription: recto, upper right, graphite, by David: il y a de l'or autour de la fraise / 5 pieds justes; [at lower center:] la princesse Louis

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jacques-Louis David, David Estate sale, Paris, A. N. Pérignon, 1826. sale, April 17, 1826, lot 75 or 79
Duchesse de Bassano, to her daughter Mlle de Bassano.
Mademoiselle de Bassano.
Martin Birnbaum, purchased from Mlle de Bassano, 1937, for Grenville L. Winthrop.
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, purchased 1937, bequest to Fogg, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1815.12.5
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Commentary
Hortense de Beauharnais (1783-1837), wife of Louis Bonaparte; her son, Napoleon-Louis-Charles, called Louis (1802-1807)

Publication History

  • Arlette Sérullaz, Dessins de Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825, Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1991), p. 333, under no. 231
  • Aileen Ribeiro, The Art of Dress: Fashion in England and France 1750 to 1820, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1995), p. 159
  • Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825: Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Leonardo Arte (Milan, 2002), cat. no. 1645, repr. recto and verso

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