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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1815.12.2
People
Jacques-Louis David, French (Paris 1748 - 1825 Brussels)
Title
Prince Louis Bonaparte; verso: Nude Study of Napoleon Striding Forward, Raising His Right Arm and Clutching a Sword to His Breast
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook page, drawing
Date
1805-1806
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/194452

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black crayon and graphite, squared in black crayon, on off-white antique laid paper; verso: squared in graphite
Dimensions
23.7 x 17.9 cm (9 5/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: recto, upper right, graphite, by David: 5 Pieds / 2 pouces et demi
  • inscription: recto, lower edge, graphite: Le prince Louis
  • inscription: recto, lower left, brown ink: [paraph of Eugène David; Lugt 839]
  • inscription: verso, lower left, brown ink : [paraph of Eugène David; Lugt 839]
  • inscription: verso, upper right, black crayon, by David: dieu, et mon épée

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
1943.1815.12.2
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Commentary
The next page (numbered 3) was removed before the sketchbook was acquired by the Fogg. Prince Louis Bonaparte (1778-1846).

Publication History

  • Jacqueline Bouchot-Saupique, "Quelques dessins de David au musée de Besançon", Bulletin de la Societe de l'Histoire de l'Art francais (1929), pp. 219-225, p. 222 (verso)
  • Arlette Sérullaz, "Quelques dessins néo-classiques conservés à la Bibliothèque Thiers, La Revue du Louvre (1974), vol. 6, pp. 417-420, p. 417 note 5
  • Anita Brookner, Jacques-Louis David, Chatto & Windus (London, England, 1980), p. 153 (verso)
  • Antoine Schnapper and Arlette Sérullaz, ed., Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825, exh. cat., Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1989), p. 422, fig. 113 (verso) (under no. 172)
  • Heather McPherson, "Historical Fiction: David, Marat, and Napoleon", Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture (1991), vol. 21, pp. 177-196, p. 196 note 41 (verso)
  • Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825: Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Leonardo Arte (Milan, 2002), cat. no. 1643, repr. recto and verso
  • Sylvain Laveissière, Le Sacre de Napoléon peint par David, exh. cat., Musée du Louvre (Paris, 2004), under no. 30, fig. 44 [recto], fig. 41 [verso]
  • Philippe Bordes, Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile, exh. cat., Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, 2005), under cat. no. 5, fig. 28 (verso)
  • Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 58 (verso)

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 03/11/2015

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

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