LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Pen and grey ink and wash over black chalk

Measurements:

9.06 in. (23.00 cm.) (height) by 6.30 in. (16.00 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed in black chalk, lower left: L. David.f.

Exhibited:

Probably Paris, Petit Palais, . Exposition Centennale de l'art français de 1800 à 1889 , 1900, no. 866;. Probably St. Petersburg, French Institute, . Centennale d'Art Français , 1912, no. 168

Literature:

J. David,. Le Peintre Louis David, 1748-1825, Souvenirs et documents inédits ,. Paris 1880, vol. I, p. 660 (« Évêque et prêtres italiens »);. A. Sérullaz,. Musée du Louvre, Cabinet des dessins. Inventaire général des dessins. École française. Dessins de Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825, Paris 1991, p. 276, under no. 228;. P. Rosenberg and L.A. Prat,. Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825: Catalogue Raisonné des dessins , Milan 2002, vol. I, p. 218, no. 207, reproduced

Provenance:

Vente Cottenet, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 16-18 May 1881, lot 52; . Alfred Beurdeley (L.421),. his sale, Paris, galerie Georges Petit, 30 November-2 December 1920, lot 109, (under the title . le Pape portant la croix et suivi de deux officiants );. bears the drystamp of the mounter, Adolphe Stoll (L.2786c);. Private collection, Paris;. Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York,. where acquired by the late owner, 14 April 1980