About This Artwork
Jacques Louis David
French, 1748-1825
Head of an Old Man in Profilec. 1791 or 1816-1820
Black chalk, on bluish-white laid paper, laid down on tan wove card
230 x 231 mm
Gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation, 1960.196
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 66.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 118-19, cat. 58 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1985-1986.
Publication History
Louis Hautecoeur, Louis David (Paris, 1954), p. 239.
S. A. Nash, The Drawings of Jacques-Louis David: Selected Problems (Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 1973), pp. 90, 219, note 249.
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks from the 18th Century (Chicago, 1977), p. 20, no. 1C4.
B. Nöel, David (Vaduz, 1989), p. 31.
Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825: Catalogue raisonné des dessins, I (Milan, 2002), p. 121, no. 110 (ill.).
Ownership History
By descent to the artist’s sons, Eugene and Jules David, from 1825 [Lugt 839 and 1437]; sold, Paris, April 17, 1826, lot 71 or 72 [according to Chicago 1974]. De Bonadona [according to Seligman]. Sold by Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1960.