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Bust of Angelique Mongez
Jacques Louis David · 1806
Provenance
Ownership history
- By descent to the artist’s sons, Eugene and Jules David [Lugt 839 and 1437]; sold, Paris, April 17, 1826, David sale, no. 76 or 77 (according to Bordes 2005, it was probably 77), to an unknown collector [according to Schnapper 1980]. Prince Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte (died 1891) [according to Paris 1893 sale cat.]. Hippolyte Destailleur (1822-1893), Paris, from February 1877 [inscription on third folio]; sold, Hôtel des Commissaires-Priseurs, Paris, May 26-27, 1893, Destailleur sale, no. 29, to Morgand, for 900 francs [according to annotated sale cat. in Bibliothèque Doucet]. F. Martinet; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 25, 1896, no. 92 [according to Bordes 2005]. David David-Weill (1871-1952) [according to Joachim 1974]. Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1961.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Jacques-Louis David," October 26, 1989-February 12, 1990.
- Los Angeles, Calif., The J. Paul Getty Museum, "Jaques-Louis David: Empire to Exile," February 1, 2005-April 24, 2005; traveled to Williamstown, Mass., the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, June 5-September 5, 2005, cat. 11B, p. 112 (ill.).
Literature
Published references
- Matthias Bleyl, Das klassizistische Porträt. Gestaltungsanalyse am Beispiel J. L, Davids (Frankfurt am Main and Bern, 1982), p. 174 note 276 and fig. 4 (ill.).
- Luc de Nanteuil, Jacques-Louis David (The Library of Great Painters, 1985), p. 55 fig. 74 (ill.).
- Autour du Néo Classicisme en Belgique, musée communal des Beaux-Arts d'Ixelles, Bruxelles (1985-1986), p. 34.
- Jean-Jacques Lévêque, Jacques-Louis David, édition Acr Paris (1989), repr. p. 13 (ill.),
- Antoine Schnapper, Arlette Sérullaz, and Elisabeth Agius-d'Yvoire, Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825 (Paris: Eds. de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1989), cat. 209 (ill.).
- Pierre Rosenberg, Louis-Antoine Prat, Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825: Catalogue Raisonné des dessins (Milan, 2002), no. 1762 (ill.).
- Philippe Bordes, Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile (New Haven, Conn., 2005), cat. 11B (ill.).
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