
Head of an Old Man in Profile
Jacques Louis David · c. 1791 or 1816–1820
Provenance
Ownership history
- By descent to the artist’s sons, Eugene and Jules David, from 1825 [Lugt 839 and 1437]; sold, Paris, April 17, 1826, lot 71 or 72 [according to Chicago 1974]. De Bonadona [according to Seligman]. Sold by Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1960.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 66.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 118-19, cat. 58 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1985-1986.
Literature
Published references
- Louis Hautecoeur, Louis David (Paris, 1954), p. 239.
- S. A. Nash, The Drawings of Jacques-Louis David: Selected Problems (Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 1973), pp. 90, 219, note 249.
- Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks from the 18th Century (Chicago, 1977), p. 20, no. 1C4.
- B. Nöel, David (Vaduz, 1989), p. 31.
- Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825: Catalogue raisonné des dessins, I (Milan, 2002), p. 121, no. 110 (ill.).
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