About This Artwork

Jacques Louis David
French, 1748-1825

Portrait of Jeanbon Saint-André, 1795

Pen and black ink and black and gray wash, with pale yellow wash and white gouache, over graphite, on tan laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
252 x 182 mm
Signed on the mount: "Donum amicitiae. amoris Solatium. David faciebat in vinculis anno R.fr 3 (1795) messidoris 20"
Helen Regenstein Collection, 1973.153

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Expo Universelle, 1878, cat. 943.

Paris, Musée Carnavalet, "La Revolution Française," 1939, cat. 719.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 122-23, cat. 60 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24-March 28, 1976, p. 71, cat. 65 (ill.).

Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 24 (ill.).

Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 60-61, cat. 26 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 108-09, cat. 46 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.

Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Jacques-Louis David," October 26, 1989-February 12, 1990, cat. 138.

Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, "French Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada," May 21-August 29, 2004, p. 110, under cat. 43, by Sonia Couturier; traveled to The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada, December 4-February 20, 2005; and the Edmonton Art Gallery, Canada, September 16-November17, 2005.

Publication History

E. J. Delécluze, Louis David son école et son temps (Paris, 1855), p. 178.

L. Rosenthal, Louis David (Paris, 1904), p. 69.

Richard Cantinelli, Jacques-Louis David (Paris, 1930), p. 120, pl. 44.

Klaus Holma, David, Son Evolution et son Style (Paris, 1940), p. 120, notes 62-68.

David Lloyd Dowd, Pageant Master of the Republic (Nebraska, 1948), pp. 138-39, note 44.

Louis Hautecoeur, Louis David (Paris, 1954), p. 130.

J. Wilhelm, "David et ses portraits: Le visage de David vu par lui-même et par ses élèves," Art de France (1964), p. 164.

Hans Naef, "Ingres Frühe Profilbildnisse in Medallionform," Pantheon 28 (May-June 1970), p. 221-36.

Harold Joachim, "Two French Portraits from the End of the Eighteenth Century," Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago, 67 (November-December 1973), pp. 3-5 (ill.).

The Art Quarterly, 35 (1973), p. 440 (ill.).

Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), pp. 20-21, no. 1C5.

Antoine Schnapper, David témoin de son temps (Fribourg, 1980), pp. 170-171 (ill.).

Luc de Nanteuil, Jacques-Louis David (New York, 1985), p. 34 (ill.).

J. J. Lévêque, La Vie et l’oeuvre de Jacques-Louis David (Paris, 1989), p. 146.

B. Nöel, David (Vaduz, 1989), p. 40.

W. Roberts, Jacques-Louis David: Revolutionary Artist, Art, Politics, and the French Revolution (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1989), pp. 105-07.

D. A. Wisner, "David Homer Drawings" (unpublished article; 1988-1989), no. 32.

D. A. Wisner, "David en prison 1794-1795: l’image post-thermidorienne de la Révolution," L’Image de la Révolution, III (1989), pp. 2067, 2072, note 39, and p. 2073, note 45.

A. Brookner, Jacques-Louis David (London, 1990), p. 59.

A. Sérullaz, Musée du Louvre, Cabinet des dessins: Inventaire génerale des dessins (Paris, 1991), under no. 204.

E. Lajer-Burcharth, "The Aesthetics of Male Crisis: The Terror in the Republican Imagery and in Jacques-Louis David’s Work from Prison," Femininity and Masculinity in Eighteenth Century Art and Culture (Manchester, 1994), pp. 226-28, 236-37 and 241, note 15.

E. Lajer-Burcharth, Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David after the Terror, (New Haven, Conn., 1999), pp. 89, 100-103, 105, 108, 115, 117-119 and 321, note 48.

S. Lee, David (London, 1999), p. 151.

Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825: Catalogue raisonné des dessins, I (Milan, 2002), p. 166, no. 148 (ill.).

Mainz am Rhein, Landesmuseum, "Beutekunst unter Napoleon. Die "französische Schenkung" an Mainz 1803," October 25, 2003-March 14, 2004, p. 90, fig. 1.

Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “‘A Lasting Monument’: The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 26, 1 (2000), p. 9.

Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “An Artist Sketching in His Studio, 1771/1772,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), pp. 52-53, no. 21, fig. 20.

Ownership History

The artist to Jean-Bon Saint-André (died 1813), Montauban [inscription]. Possibly, Thuet de Caussade [Rosenberg and Prat 2002]. Marquis de Biron (1860-1939); sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 9-11, 1914, de Biron sale, lot 12 to Oscar Stettiner for 10,000 fancs [Rosenberg and Prat 2002]. Gabriel Cognacq (1880-1951), Paris, by 1939 [Paris 1939]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 10, 1952, Cognacq sale, lot 49. Sacha Guitry, Paris (1885-1957), by 1954 [Rosenberg and Prat 2002]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 24, 1972, lot 22 to Henri Baderou (1910-1991). Sold by Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1973.