Madame de Pastoret and Her Son

1. In the artist’s possession until his death in 1825; inventoried on February 27, 1826, at the apartment of his son Eugène, rue Cadet no. 11, Paris; sold in David’s atelier sale, rue du Gros-Chenet no. 4, Paris, April 17, 1826, no. 16, for Fr 400, to Révile, acting on behalf of Emmanuel de Pastoret [price and buyer recorded in David 1880 and the 1897 sale catalogue]. Claude Emmanuel Joseph Pierre, marquis de Pastoret (died 1840), Château de Fleury-Meudon, Seine-et-Oise; by descent to his granddaughter, Marie de Pastoret (died 1890), who in 1835 married Hervé de Rougé, marquis du Plessis-Bellière; sold Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 10–11, 1897, no. 21, for Fr 17,900, to Chéramy [La chronique des arts 1897 and Meier-Graefe and Klossowski 1908]; Paul Alfred Chéramy, Paris; sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 5–7, 1908, no. 44 (ill.), for Fr 41,000, to Georges Petit, Paris [American Art News 1908; the buyer is given by Schnapper in Paris 1974/75]. Comtesse Joachim Murat (née Thérèse Bianchi; died 1940), Paris, by 1909 [lent by her to Paris 1909]; at her death to her sister, vicomtesse Fleury (née Renée Bianchi; died 1948); at her death to vicomte Fleury; sold to Wildenstein, New York, c. 1965 [according to telephone conversation of Joseph Baillio with Susan Wise, March 4, 1988, note in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1967.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Palais du Domaine de Bagatelle, Exposition rétrospective de portraits de femmes sous les trios républiques, 1909, no. 48.
• Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (Petit Palais), David et ses élèves, 1913, no. 39.
• Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Exposition rétrospective d’art français, 1926, no. 35.
• Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, De David à Delacroix: La Peinture française de 1774 à 1830, 1974–1975, no. 34; traveled to Detroit and New York.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Works of the Eighteenth-Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1976, no. 17.
• Art Institute of Chicago, European Portraits, 1600–1900, in The Art Institute of Chicago, 1978, no. 12.
• Paris, Musée du Louvre, and Versailles, Musée National du Château, Jacques-Louis David, 1748–1825, October 26, 1989–February 12, 1990, no. 116.
• Art Institute of Chicago, New Light on Old Masters: French and British Paintings from 1700 to 1800,” 1996–1997, no cat.
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Unfinished, Thoughts Left Invisible, March 7-September 5, 2016, cat. 74.

• A. Mahul, Annuaire nécrologique, ou complément annuel et continuation de toutes les biographies, ou dictionnaires historiques…., année 1825, Paris, December 1826, p. 141.
• P[ierre] A[lexander] Coupin, Essai sur J. L. David, peintre d’histoire, ancien member de l’Institut, officier de la Légion-d’Honneur, Paris, 1827, p. 55.
• Alexander Lenoir, “David: Souvenirs historiques,” Journal de l’Institut historique 3 (November 1835), p. 9.
• Jean du Seigneur, “Appendice à la notice de P. Chaussard sur L. David (1),” Revue universelle des arts 18 (1864), p. 367.
• Charles Blanc, Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles, pt. 3, Ecole française, vol. 2, Paris, 1865, David p. 15.
• J. L. Jules David, Le Peintre Louis David, 1748–1825: Souvenirs et documents inédits, Paris, 1880, p. 644.
• Château de Moreuil Collections, Abbeville, 1884, pp. 169–70, no. 223.
• Spire Blondel, L’Art pendant la revolutions: Beaux-Arts, arts décoratifs, Paris, [1887], p. 55.
• Emile Delignières, Notice sur des tableaux de Louis David et d’Ingres au Château de Moreuil en Picardie, Paris, 1890, pp. 7–9, ill. opp. p. 7; also published in Réunion des Sociétés des Beaux-Arts des départments 14 (1890), pp. 491–93, pl. XIX.
• “La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 3d ser., 17 (1897), suppl. no. 20, p. 186.
• Charles Saunier, “La ´Mort de Sénèque’ par Louis David,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 3d ser., 33 (1905), p. 236.
• Louis Vauxcelles, “La Collection Chéramy,” L’Art et les artistes 1 (1905), ill. opp. p. 124.

[Group of 42 Stereograph Views From the London Stereoscopic Company, 1860-1870, Many Hand-Colored to Illustrate Books]

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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)

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The Death of Socrates

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The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons

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General Étienne-Maurice Gérard (1773–1852)

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Semina Two

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The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre

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