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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Los Angeles, Calif., The J. Paul Getty Museum, "Jaques-Louis David: Empire to Exile," February 1, 2005-April 24, 2005; traveled to Williamstown, Mass., the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, June 5-September 5, 2005.

Publication History

Pierre Rosenberg, Louis-Antoine Prat, Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825: Catalogue Raisonné des dessins (Milan, 2002), no. 1737.

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, lot 29, to Morgand, for 900 francs [according to annotated sale cat. in Bibliothèque Doucet]. F. Martinet; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 25, 1896, lot 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.