Study for The Oath of the Tennis Court: Bailly Standing on the Desk, Asking for a Vote

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c. 1804-05

Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine
French, 1745-1830

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Artist: Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine
Title: Study for The Oath of the Tennis Court: Bailly Standing on the Desk, Asking for a Vote
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1804–1805
Medium: Pen and brown ink, black chalk, and brush and gray wash, on gray laid paper
Dimensions: 39.3 × 25.7 cm (15 1/2 × 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation. The Joseph and Helen Regenstein collection
Reference Number: 1960.207R
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J. L. Jules David, Le Peintre Louis David (Paris, 1880), pp. 656 and 666.
A. Dayot, Un Siècle d’Art, Notes sur la Peinture Française à l’Exposition Centennale des Beaux-Arts (Paris, 1890), p. 38.
F. Evrard, “Le Serment du jeu de Paume dans l’Oeuvre de David,” Revue de l’Histoire de Versailles et de Seine-et-Oise (1924), pp. 288-89.
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the 18th Century (Chicago, 1979), no. 1C2.

Paris, Exposition Universelle Internationale, 1880, cat. 1437.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, “French 18th Century Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings from the David-Weill Collection,” November-December 1938, cat. 65 or 66.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, “The French Revolution,” 1943, cat. 40a.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, “French Pastels and Drawings from Clouet to Degas,” 1944, cat. 103.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, “French 19th Century Drawings,” 1947-1948, cat 8 or 9.
Toulouse, France, Musée des Augustins, “Ingres et ses Maîtres de Roques à David,” 1955, cat. 51; traveled to the Musée Ingres, Montauban.
Minneapolis, Minn., University Gallery, University of Minnesota, “The Eighteenth Century: One Hundred Drawings by One Hundred Artists,” 1961, cat. 16.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 65, pl. XXVII, as by Jacques-Louis David.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings,” 1974, pp. 112-15, cat. 56 (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, pp. 70-71, cat. 64 (ill.), as by Jacques-Louis David.
Amherst Mass., Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, “Representing Revolution,” September 15-November 1, 1989.
New York, Colnaghi, “1789, French Art During The Revolution,” October 10-November 22, 1989.

Estate of the artist; sold, Paris, April 17, 1826. M. Coutan, Paris; sold, Paris, April 17-18, 1830. Dumont, Paris; sold, Paris, February 13, 1854. Chéramy, Paris; sold, Paris, April 14-16, 1913. David David-Weill (1871-1952), by November 1938 [New York 1938]; consigned to Wildenstein and Company, New York, 1938; sold to the Art Institute, 1960.

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