Live Auction 2820Old Master & Early British Drawings & Watercolors
Jacques-Louis David (Paris 1748-1825 Brussels)
Lot 57

Jacques-Louis David (Paris 1748-1825 Brussels)

A veiled woman, bust-length

Closed30 January 2014

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Jacques-Louis David (Paris 1748-1825 Brussels)
A veiled woman, bust-length
signed 'David f.'
pencil
7 1/8 x 5½ in. (17.7 x 14 cm.)

François Sauvo (1772-1859) (according to an inscription on the old backing).
Anonymous sale; Paris, Drouot, 18 April 1984, lot 116.

Specialist note

A similar drawing from David's Brussels period was sold in these rooms, 26 January 2012, lot 124.

Sauvo (1772-1859) was appointed in 1800 the editor-in-chief of the French government's official newspaper, Le Moniteur Universel.