Hands of Horatius from The Oath of the Horatii

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Prints and Drawings

1785/90

Jean Baptiste Debret (French, 1768–1848)
after Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748–1825)

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean Baptiste Debret
Title: Hands of Horatius from The Oath of the Horatii
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.: 1785–1790
Medium: Red chalk on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed lower right, in red chalk: “Debret”; inscribed, upper left, in black chalk: “D. o / 4s” (?)
Dimensions: 80 × 60 cm (31 1/2 × 23 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Margaret Day Blake Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2023.2848
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Perrin Stein (editor), Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022), p. 15, fig. 6.

Probably by descent to the artist’s brother François Debret (1777–1850); by descent to the family of his brother-in-law, Félix Duban (1797–1870) [provenance is according to email from Bochra Bouslama, of TB Conseil, Mar. 17, 2023]. Sold by an art dealer to TB Conseil, Paris, from 2020 [according to information provided by TB Conseil to the Art Loss Register; the drawing was offered for sale at Aguttes, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Mar. 25, 2021, lot 62 (bought in)]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.

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