FJK 033
David Jacques-Louis (French, Paris 1748–1825 Brussels)
View of a Town in Roman Campagna
1775-1780
5 25/64 × 9 7/32 in. (137 × 234 mm)
Medium
Pen, grey ink, wash and traces of graphite on wove paper
Inscription in pencil from David’s hand, bottom: du Sens opposé le jour venant de derrière
Numbered on secondary paper support: 266c...
Initials of the artist’s sons, bottom left (Lugt 839, Lugt 1437)
Origin
Artist’s studio (album no. 10, fol. 12)
Posthumous sale, Paris, April 17, 1826, part of no. 66
Sale, Paris, March 11, 1835, part of no. 16
M. A. Chassagnolle Collection
Marquise de Ludre Collection
Sale, Gallery Charpentier, Paris, March 15, 1956, no. 11
Marquise de Lau d’Allemans Collection
Mrs. de Chaumony Quitry Collection
Germain Seligman Collection, New York (inventory no. on paper support: A. 10)
Lore and Rudolf Heinemann Collection
Sale, Christie’s, London, July 1st, 1997, no. 194
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 5442
Jan Krugier Foundation
Bibliography
DAVID J., Le peintre Louis David, Paris, 1880, pp. 651, 653.
HOLMA K., David, son évolution et son style, Paris, 1940, p. 113.
HAUTECOEUR Louis, Louis David, Paris: La Table Ronde, 1954, p. 38.
SERULLAZ Arlette, David et Rome, exh. cat. Rome, Académie de France, Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1981, p. 68, note 19.
ROSENBERG Pierre, PRAT Louis-Antoine, Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825. Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan: Leonardo Arte, 2002, vol. I, no. 1066 (12 d), Feuillet 12, p. 693 ill.
Exhibitions
New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, Drawings from the Collection of Lore and Rudolf Heinemann, 1973, no. 8, ill.
Paris, Musée du Louvre, département des Peintures, Musée national du château de Versailles Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825, 1989-1990, no. 25, ill.
Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Linie, Licht und Schatten. Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 1999, p. 140, no. 63, color ill. p. 141.
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, 1999, p. 156; no. 71, color ill. p. 157.
Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, p. 198, no. 83, color ill. p. 199.
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La passion du dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, p. 176, no. 76, color ill. p. 177.
Vienna, Albertina Museum, Goya bis Picasso. Meisterwerke der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2005, p. 38, no. 8, color ill. p. 39.
Notes
Upon his arrival in Rome, David would likely have been stunned by all that he saw. Though in the sketchbooks of this period which have come to us, one can’t find any trace of these ranges.
David had gathered his sketches in twelve sketchbooks, sold at his sale in 1826 (no. 16). The Louvre museum holds two sketchbooks; another one belongs to Mr. Valentiner in Los Angeles, and two are owned by his descendants: the Viscountess Fleury and the Marquise de Ludre. Some drawings on tracing paper have been recently exhibited and published.
These sketches can bedivided into many categories: Designs after antique sculpture, after books of drawings, after paintings by old masters, landscapes. David made them to study Antiquity, to discover the secrets of style and arrangement, and to own some useful documents for the composition of his future paintings.
Louis Hautecœur, 1954, op. cit. p. 38 (translated from French)
Request for information/loan
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