LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Size Notes:
72 x 56
Description:
SIGN UP or
LOG IN
Exhibited:
Brussels, Muse Royal des Beaux-Arts,David et son temps, 192526, no. 10;; Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries and Versailles, Muse du Chteau,David. Exposition en l'honneur du deuxime centenaire de sa naissance,June September 1948, no. 78 (as David).
Literature:
R. Cantinelli,Jacques-Louis David 17481825,Paris and Brussels 1930, p. 117, no. 176 (as David);; K. Holma,David, son volution et son style,Paris 1940, p. 130, no. 180 (as David);; M. Florisoone,David. Exposition en l'honneur du deuxime centenaire de sa naissance, exh. cat., Paris and Versailles 1948, no. 78 (as David);; L. Hautecoeur,Louis David, Paris 1954, p. 265, note 77.
Provenance:
First recorded in the collection of Maurice Cantoni (18641934), great-grandson of the presumed sitter;; Thence by family descent;; With Simon Dickinson, London;; Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 10 December 2009, lot 209, where acquired.