ID 1361013
Lot 78 | JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID (PARIS 1748-1825 BRUSSELS)
Estimate value
$ 2 000 – 4 000
A Roman imperial throne
inscribed with the initials of the artist's sons Charles-Louis-Jules and François-Eugène David (lower right)
black chalk, counterproof
5 3/8 x 8 ½ in. (13.5 x 21.5 cm)
Provenance
Charles-Louis-Jules David (1783-1954) and François-Eugène David (1784-1830), Paris (L. 1437 and L. 839); David sale, Paris, 17 April 1826, part of lot 66 (unsold).
Second David sale, Paris, 11 March 1835, part of lot 16.
Anonymous sale; Paris, 4-5 April 1836, part of lot 164.
M. Chassagnole, Paris; by descent to his nephew
Jules David, Paris, 1882.
Marquis and Marquise de Ludre (Great-grandaughter of the artist), Paris; Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 15 March 1956, part of lot 11 (unsold); then by descent to
Marquise du Lau d’Allemans and Comtesse de Chaumont-Quitry, Versailles.
with Jacques Seligmann, New York (Master Drawings, 1961, no. 15).
John M. Wisdom Jr., New York.
with Shepherd Gallery, New York (The Non-Dissenters. French Nineteenth Century Pictures, 1968, no. 5).
Lady Mary Stuart-Walker (1906-1980), London, and by whom sold, Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 25 November 1971, lot 27.
Malcolm Forbes, New York.
with Richard L. Feigen, London (Neo-Classicism and Romanticism in French Painting 1774-1826, 1994, no. 6, ill.).
Literature
A. Schnapper and A. Sérullaz, Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825, exhib. cat., Paris, Musée du Louvre, Versailles, Musée national du Château de Versailles et de Trianon, 1989, p. 81, under no. 20.
P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825. Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan, 2002, I, no. 1077, ill.
| Artist: | Jacques-Louis David (1748 - 1825) |
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| Auction house category: | Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | Jacques-Louis David (1748 - 1825) |
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| Auction house category: | Watercolors and drawings |
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