Jacques Louis David
1748-1825
An Alpine Landscape with a Horsedrawn Carriage Traversing a Pass
6 x 8 3/8 inches (154 x 212 mm)
Black chalk, with white, on paper.
1991.6
Purchased on the Sunny Crawford von Bulow Fund, 1978.
Notes
Watermark: none.
This leaf is from the now dismembered album 10, which David began in 1774 when he made his first trip to Italy and which is one of the artist's twelve "albums factices". He filled them mainly with rough studies of ancient art and copies of Italian paintings. The Library has five other leaves from the same album in its collection, two sketches after antique subjects (Acc. No. 1978.42:1-2), two Roman landscapes (Acc. No. 1988.39:1-2), and a portrait of Pauline Borghese (Acc. No. 1990.37).
This leaf is from the now dismembered album 10, which David began in 1774 when he made his first trip to Italy and which is one of the artist's twelve "albums factices". He filled them mainly with rough studies of ancient art and copies of Italian paintings. The Library has five other leaves from the same album in its collection, two sketches after antique subjects (Acc. No. 1978.42:1-2), two Roman landscapes (Acc. No. 1988.39:1-2), and a portrait of Pauline Borghese (Acc. No. 1990.37).
Associated names
David, Eugène, former owner.
David, Jules, former owner.
Chassegnolles, M., former owner.
Seligman, Germain, former owner.
David, Jules, former owner.
Chassegnolles, M., former owner.
Seligman, Germain, former owner.
Bibliography
Denison, Cara D., with Stephanie Wiles and Ruth S. Kraemer. Fantasy and Reality : Drawings from the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Collection. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1995, no. 21, repr.
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Century Drawings
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