Harvard Art Museums > 1943.799: Study for "The Oath of the Tennis Court" Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Study for "The Oath of the Tennis Court" (Jacques-Louis David) , 1943.799,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 23, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/297563. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1943.799 People Jacques-Louis David, French (Paris 1748 - 1825 Brussels) Title Study for "The Oath of the Tennis Court" Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date c. 1790 Culture French Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/297563 Physical Descriptions Medium Brown and black ink and graphite, squared in graphite, on off-white antique laid paper Dimensions 66.2 x 99 cm (26 1/16 x 39 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: lower left, graphite, in artist's hand: les pierres / sont Blanches watermark: Shield with beehive; countermark: J. HONIG / ZOONEN inscription: center left, graphite, in artist's hand: 8 planches sur le couloir; also notations indicating width and depth of the balcony at upper right: 3p-4, 2p-6; the width of the roof: 8 plus...; and height of columned ledge on the arcade on the left: 2p-8 Provenance Recorded Ownership History Given by the artist to his student José de Madrazo y Agudo; his son Federigo de Madrazo y Kuntz; his son Mariano Fortuny y Marsal; his son Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo; acquired through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, october 1934 (Fr. 25,000); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop Accession Year 1943 Object Number 1943.799 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT BY THE TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION TO THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS. The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description The drawing was previously folded into sixteenths, although currently the folds dividing it into eighths are more visible. On the verso, two of the eight sections are covered in brown wash strokes, presumably offloading the brush or testing (by David or someone else). Publication History David Lloyd Dowd, Pageant-Master of the Republic, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, Nebraska, 1948), pg. 38, no. 57, pl. 8 Steven Alan Nash, "The Drawings of Jacques-Louis David: Selected Problems" (1973), Stanford University Press, pp. 98, 111, 222, no. 270, fig. 121 Philippe Bordes, "Jacques-Louis David's 'Serment du Jeu de Paume': Propaganda without a Cause?", Oxford Art Journal, Oxford University Press (UK) (Oxford, October 1980), 3, pg. 569 Arlette Sérullaz, "Un carnet de croquis de Jacques-Louis David", La revue du Louvre, Conseil des musées nationaux (Paris, 1980), 2, p. 107, no. 14 Antoine Schnapper, David, témoin de son temps, La Bibliothèque des Arts and Office du Livre (Paris; Fribourg, 1980), pp. 108, 112, fig. 53 Philippe Bordes, "Le Serment du Jeu de Paume" de Jacques-Louis David: Le peintre, son milieu et son temps, de 1789 à 1792.", Notes et documents de musées de France, Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux (1983), 8, no. 24, fig. 83, and pp. 42, 50, 57, 104, nn. 129-30, p. 196 under no. 13, p. 198 under no. 17, pg.199 under no. 19, pg. 212 under no. 26 (fo. 20v), pg. 228 under no. 27 (fol. 17v, 20v)pg. 229 under no. 27 (fol. 22r) Wolfgang Kemp, "Das Revolutionstheater des Jacques-Louis David: Eine neue Interpretation des Schwurs im Ballhaus.", Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft, Verlag des Kunstgeschichtlichen Seminars der Universität Marburg an der Lahn (Marburg, 1986), 21, pp. 167 (fig. 5), 169 Antoine Schnapper and Arlette Sérullaz, ed., Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825, exh. cat., Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1989), pp. 246-48, fig. 74 Bernard Noël, L. David, Crown Publishers Inc. (New York, NY, 1989), repro. pg. 33 Jean-Jacques Lévêque, La vie et l'oeuvre de Jacques-Louis David, ACR Édition (Courbevoie (Paris), 1989), repro. pg. 99 Denis Milhau, "Discours d'histoire, discours d'actualité: Quelques remarques à propos de David et de la modernité.", Bulletin du Musée Ingres, Société des amis du Musée Ingres (Montauban, 1990), 61-62, pg. 98 Arlette Sérullaz, Dessins de Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825, Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1991), under nos. 197, 207, 226 (fol. 20, 22r) M. Volpi, "David anacronista", Studi in onore di Giulio Carlo Argan, La Nuova Italia Editrice (Florence, 1994), pp. 288-89, fig. 3 (reversed) Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 69, repr. Milena Kalinovska, New Histories, exh. cat., ed. Lia Gangitano, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (Boston, MA, 1996), repr. p. 129 Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825: Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Leonardo Arte (Milan, 2002), no. 116, repro. Vincent Pomarède, "La Collection Winthrop: A la recherche de la beauté pure", L'Estampille/L'Objet d'art (April 2003), no. 379, pp. 34-45, repr. p. 37 (color) Richard Wrigley, "'Le Serment du Jeu de paume' de Jacques-Louis David et la représentation de l'homme du peuple en 1791", Revue de l'Art (2003), no. 141, pp. 9-24, pp. 12-13, figs. 7, 8 (detail) Anne Bertrand, "Winthrop: le dessein d'une collection", L'Oeil (March 2003), no. 545, p. 46 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), cat. no. 17, repr. (color), p. 29 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. 17, repr. Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), repr. p. 46 as fig. 79 Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 119, 121, 282, repr. p. 116 as fig. 1 Perrin Stein, ed., Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (New York, 2022), pp. 188-189, repr. p. 189 as fig. 109 The Exceptional Sale, auct. cat., Christie's, Paris (Paris, November 22, 2022), p. 116, repr. as fig. 2 Exhibition History French Romanticism of the Eighteen Thirties, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/16/1943 - 02/12/1943 The Age of Romanticism, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/15/1986 - 05/18/1986 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 HAA 10 Survey Course: The Western Tradition, Art Since the Renaissance, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/09/2008 - 03/02/2008 Modern Art and Modernity, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2013 - 06/01/2013 Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/21/2017 - 05/07/2017 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
