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Jacques-Louis David

( French, 1748 - 1825 )

Portrait of Ramel de Nogaret

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LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

23.39 in. (59.40 cm.) (height) by 18.31 in. (46.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'L. DAVID BRVX - 1820', (lower left)

Exhibited:

Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Deuxième exposition de portraits du siècle au profit de la société philanthropique, 1885, no. 41. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, David et ses élèves, 1913, no. 64. Musée de L'Ile de France, Château de Sceaux and Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Ile-de-France - Brabant, 2 June - 31 August 1962 (Paris); 14 October - 17 December 1962 (Brussels), no. 180. Colnaghi, New York, The French portrait, 1550-1850, 10 January - 10 February 1996, pp. 76-78 and 104-05, plate 22. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, The James Fairfax Collection of Old Master Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, 17 April - 20 July 2003, no. 14. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile, 1 February - 24 April; Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 5 June - 5 September 2005 (Williamstown), no. 52.

Literature:

Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de M. J.-L. David, Paris, 1824, p. 67. A. Mahul, Annuaire nécrologique, ou complément annuel et continuation de toutes les biographies ou dictionnaires historiques.., Année 1825, Paris, December 1826, p. 141, no. XLI. 'A. Th.' [Aimé Thomé de Gamond], Vie de David, premier peintre de Napoléon, Brussels/Paris, 1826, p. 166. P.A. Coupin, Essai sur J. L. David, peintre d'histoire, ancien membre de l'Institut, officier de la Légion-d'honneur, Paris, 1827, p. 57. E.J. Delécluze, Louis David son école et son temps: souvenirs, Paris, 1855, p. 368, note 1. J.L.J. David, Notice sur le Marat de Louis David suivie de la liste de ses tableaux dressée par lui-même, Paris, 1867, p. 39. J.L.J. David, Le peintre Louis David, 1748-1825: I. Souvenirs et documents inédits; II. Suite d'eaux-fortesaprés ses oeuvres gravées par J.L. David son petit-fils, 2 vols, Paris, 1880-82, vol. 2, 1882, p. 650. Deuxième ex[position de portraits du siècle au profit de la sociétéphilanthropique, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1885, p. 23, no. 41. C. Saunier, Louis-David: biographie critique, Paris, 1904 (edition consulted 1909), p. 119. David et ses élèves, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1913, p. 26, no. 64. C. Saunier, 'David et son école au Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (Petit Palais)', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, year 55, semester 1, May 1913, pp. 271-90. R. Cantinelli, Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825, Paris/Brussels, 1930, p. 114, no. 150. K. Holma, David, son évolution et son style, Paris, 1940, pp. 96, 129, no. 156. Ile-de-France -- Brabant, exhibition catalogue, Château de Sceaux/Brussels, 1962, pp. 72-73, no. 180, pl. LXIII. G. Poisson, 'A propos de l'exposition Ile de France-Brabant', Revue du Louvre, vol. 3, no. 1, 1963, pp. 32-42. D. and G. Wildenstein, Documents complémentaires au catalogue de l'oeuvre de Louis David, Paris, 1973, p. 220, 1883, p. 227, 1983. R. Verbraeken, Jacques-Louis David jugé par ses contemporains et par la postérité, Paris, 1973, p. 247. A. Schnapper, David témoin de son temps, Fribourg, 1980, p. 288. A. Schnapper, David, New York, 1982, pp. 286-88. L. de Nanteuil, Jacques-Louis David, New York, 1985, p. 70. A. Wintermute, 1789: French art during the Revolution, exhibition catalogue, Colnaghi, New York, 1989, p. 132. A. Schnapper, in Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825, Musée du Louvre, Paris; Musée National du Château, Versailles, 1989-90, p. 514. A. Schnapper and E. Bouyé, Jacques-Louis David, portrait de Ramel, catalogue of the sale, Maître Binoche, Paris, 18 October 1995. A. Wintermute, The French Portrait, 1550-1850, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1996, pp. 76-78, 104-5, pl. 77. R. Beresford and P. Raissis, The James Fairfax Collection of Old Master Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 17 April - 20 July 2003, pp. 62-65. P. Bordes, Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile, Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1 February - 24 April 2005; Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, 5 June - 5 September 2005, no. 52.

Provenance:

Painted for Dominique-Vincent Ramel de Nogaret, 1820. By descent to his daughter Pauline, who married Edouard-Louis Lorois (1792-1836). By descent to her son Edouard Lorois (1819-1885), and thence to his widow. By inheritance to 'MM. P.' (unidentified), 1913. By descent to Maître Binoche; Drouot, Paris, 18 October 1995, lot 40. James Fairfax, Bowral, New South Wales.

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