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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1815.19.9.C
People
Jacques-Louis David, French (Paris 1748 - 1825 Brussels)
After Alessandro Tiarini, Italian (1577 - 1668)
Title
The Nativity (The Roman Album)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing, album page
Date
1775-1780
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/293313

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black crayon and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, mounted on pale green laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 14.2 x 10.4 cm (5 9/16 x 4 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Inscribed by David in black crayon, lower center: jour[?] / Tiarini Salvatore; paraphs of Eugène and Jules David (L. 839; L. 1437) in brown ink at lower left

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1815.19.9.C
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan, "Some Drawings by David from his Roman Album I", Etudes d'art français offertes à Charles Sterling, Presses Universitaires de France (Paris, 1975), pp. 319-326, pp. 321-22, 325, no. 7
  • Seymour Howard, A Classical Frieze by Jacques-Louis David: Sacrifice of the hero: the Roman Years., Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, CA, 1975), p. 113, no. 127
  • Régis Michel, Arlette Sérullaz, and Udolpho van de Sandt, David e Roma, exh. cat., De Luca (Rome, 1981), pp. 90, 95 no. 2
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), pp. 44-45, repro.
  • Andrea Emiliani, Michela Scolaro, and Pierre Rosenberg, "David a Bologna, David e Bologna.", Minerva Edizioni (Bologna, 2001), p. 498, repro.
  • Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825: Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Leonardo Arte (Milan, 2002), nos. 466-68, repro.
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), pp. 76-77, repro. pg. 77
  • Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 16, repr.

Exhibition History

  • A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery, London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004

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