Jacques Louis David
1748-1825
Warrior and Amazon
5 3/16 x 7 9/16 inches (132 x 192 mm)
Gray wash over black chalk on paper.
1978.42:1
Gift of Miss Felice Stampfle.
Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
This leaf is mounted on the same mat as the artist's "Banquet Scene Copied from the Grimani Altar, Museo Archeologico, Venice" (Acc. No. 1978.42:2). Both are from the now dismembered album 10, which David began in 1774 when he made his first trip to Italy and is one of the artist's twelve "albums factices". He filled them mainly with rough studies of ancient art and copies of Italian paintings. There are four other drawings from album 10 in the Library's collection, two Roman landscapes (Acc. No. 1988.39:1-2), a portrait of Pauline Borghese (Acc. No. 1990.37), and an Alpine landscape (Acc. No. 1991.6).
This leaf is mounted on the same mat as the artist's "Banquet Scene Copied from the Grimani Altar, Museo Archeologico, Venice" (Acc. No. 1978.42:2). Both are from the now dismembered album 10, which David began in 1774 when he made his first trip to Italy and is one of the artist's twelve "albums factices". He filled them mainly with rough studies of ancient art and copies of Italian paintings. There are four other drawings from album 10 in the Library's collection, two Roman landscapes (Acc. No. 1988.39:1-2), a portrait of Pauline Borghese (Acc. No. 1990.37), and an Alpine landscape (Acc. No. 1991.6).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed by the artist, at lower right, in black chalk, "au Capitole"; monogrammed by the artist's sons Jules and Eugène at the time of the 1828 sale, at lower left, in pen and brown ink, "E.D. / J.D.".
Associated names
David, Jules, former owner.
David, Eugène, former owner.
Chassegnolles, M., former owner.
Ludre, Marquise de, former owner.
Stampfle, Felice, former owner.
David, Eugène, former owner.
Chassegnolles, M., former owner.
Ludre, Marquise de, former owner.
Stampfle, Felice, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 186.
Denison, Cara, Myra Nan Rosenfeld, and Stephanie Wiles. Exploring Rome : Piranesi and His Contemporaries. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library; Montréal : Centre Canadien d'Architecture, 1993, no. 127, repr.
Denison, Cara, Myra Nan Rosenfeld, and Stephanie Wiles. Exploring Rome : Piranesi and His Contemporaries. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library; Montréal : Centre Canadien d'Architecture, 1993, no. 127, repr.
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