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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1815.12.1
People
Jacques-Louis David, French (Paris 1748 - 1825 Brussels)
Title
Light Sketch of a Woman in Profile (after Rubens?); verso: Two Heads of a Young Man
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook page, drawing
Date
1805-1806
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/194435

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk 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, top of page, graphite, by David: demander la couleur du manteau et de l'habit pantalon de / la taille du prince ainsi que de la princesse / demander Monsieur hochard Valet de chambre du prince Louis / [in black crayon, by Kosziusko?:] kosciusko / écrit par lui

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The artist's estate, sold; [through A. N. A. N. Pérignon, April 17, 1826, lot 75 or 79. Mme la duchesse de Bassano, by descent; to Mlle de Bassano, her daughter, sold [through Martin Birnbaum]; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, 1937, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1815.12.1
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Commentary
Possibly inscribed by Tadeusz Kosciuszko (1746-1817), Polish army officer and statesman.

Publication History

  • Heather McPherson, "Historical Fiction: David, Marat, and Napoleon", Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (1991), vol. 21, pp. 177-196, p. 191
  • Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825: Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Leonardo Arte (Milan, 2002), cat. no. 1642, repr. recto and verso

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