About This Artwork

Jacques Louis David
French, 1748-1825

Bust of a Man, Head Turned to Right, c. 1810

Black chalk, with touches of black crayon, on off-white laid paper, edge mounted on cream wove paper
226 x 179 mm
Helen Regenstein Collection, 1961.393.36

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Jacques-Louis David," October 26, 1989-February 12, 1990.

Publication History

Harold Joachim, The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings: Catalogue (Chicago, 1974), n. 59, (ill.).

Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1977), p. 22, no. 1C11.

Ownership History

By descent to the artist’s sons, Eugene and Jules David [Lugt 839 and 1437]; sold, Paris, April 17, 1826, David sale, no. 76 or 77 (according to Bordes 2005, it was probably 77), to an unknown collector [according to Schnapper 1980]. Prince Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte (died 1891) [according to Paris 1893 sale cat.]. Hippolyte Destailleur (1822-1893), Paris, from February 1877 [inscription on third folio]; sold, Hôtel des Commissaires-Priseurs, Paris, May 26-27, 1893, Destailleur sale, no. 29, to Morgand, for 900 francs [according to annotated sale cat. in Bibliothèque Doucet]. F. Martinet; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 25, 1896, no. 92 [according to Bordes 2005]. David David-Weill (1871-1952) [according to Joachim 1974]. Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1961.