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Portrait of Jeanbon Saint-André

Jacques Louis David · 1795

Provenance

Ownership history

The artist to Jean-Bon Saint-André (died 1813), Montauban [inscription]. Possibly, Thuet de Caussade [Rosenberg and Prat 2002]. Marquis de Biron (1860-1939); sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 9-11, 1914, de Biron sale, lot 12 to Oscar Stettiner for 10,000 fancs [Rosenberg and Prat 2002]. Gabriel Cognacq (1880-1951), Paris, by 1939 [Paris 1939]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 10, 1952, Cognacq sale, lot 49. Sacha Guitry, Paris (1885-1957), by 1954 [Rosenberg and Prat 2002]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 24, 1972, lot 22 to Henri Baderou (1910-1991). Sold by Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1973.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Paris, Expo Universelle, 1878, cat. 943.
Paris, Musée Carnavalet, "La Revolution Française," 1939, cat. 719.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 122-23, cat. 60 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24-March 28, 1976, p. 71, cat. 65 (ill.).
Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 24 (ill.).
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 60-61, cat. 26 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 108-09, cat. 46 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Jacques-Louis David," October 26, 1989-February 12, 1990, cat. 138.
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, "French Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada," May 21-August 29, 2004, p. 110, under cat. 43, by Sonia Couturier; traveled to The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada, December 4-February 20, 2005; and the Edmonton Art Gallery, Canada, September 16-November17, 2005.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gods and (Super)heroes: Drawing in an Age of Revolution", November 16, 2017 - April 1, 2018.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman", Febuary 14 - May 15, 2022, p. 17, 55, 177, 200 (ill.), 203-204, 206, cat. 59, cat. by Perrin Stein, et. al.

Literature

Published references

E. J. Delécluze, Louis David son école et son temps (Paris, 1855), p. 178.
L. Rosenthal, Louis David (Paris, 1904), p. 69.
Richard Cantinelli, Jacques-Louis David (Paris, 1930), p. 120, pl. 44.
Klaus Holma, David, Son Evolution et son Style (Paris, 1940), p. 120, notes 62-68.
David Lloyd Dowd, Pageant Master of the Republic (Nebraska, 1948), pp. 138-39, note 44.
Louis Hautecoeur, Louis David (Paris, 1954), p. 130.
J. Wilhelm, "David et ses portraits: Le visage de David vu par lui-même et par ses élèves," Art de France (1964), p. 164.
Hans Naef, "Ingres Frühe Profilbildnisse in Medallionform," Pantheon 28 (May-June 1970), p. 221-36.
Harold Joachim, "Two French Portraits from the End of the Eighteenth Century," Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago, 67 (November-December 1973), pp. 3-5 (ill.).
The Art Quarterly, 35 (1973), p. 440 (ill.).
Herold Joachim, “Trois siècles de portraits dessinés à l’Art Institute de Chicago,” L’Oeil, 255 (October 1976), p. 5, no. 2 (ill.)
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), pp. 20-21, no. 1C5.

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