Live Auction 2820Old Master & Early British Drawings & Watercolors
Jacques-Louis David (Paris 1748-1825 Brussels)
Lot 54

Jacques-Louis David (Paris 1748-1825 Brussels)

A scene from classical Antiquity

Closed30 January 2014

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Jacques-Louis David (Paris 1748-1825 Brussels)
A scene from classical Antiquity
black chalk, grey wash
6 x 8 3/8 in. (15 x 21.3 cm.)

E. and J. David (L. 839 and L. 1437); the artist's studio sale, Paris, 17 April 1826, and following days, lot 66, part of album 6.
Sale, Paris, 11 March 1835, part of lot 16.
with Galerie Paul Prouté, Paris, 1978 (cat. Centenaire, no. 58, fol. 1a).
with Galerie de Bayser, Paris, 1979, Louis David: dessins du premier séjour romain, no. 2.

Specialist note

As identified by G. Oberreuter Kronabel, the two figures on the left copy a sarcophagus in the Villa Borghese, Rome (op. cit., fig. 8).