Jacques Louis David

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Jacques Louis David

1748-1825

An Alpine Landscape with a Horsedrawn Carriage Traversing a Pass

Black chalk, with white, on paper.

6 x 8 3/8 inches (154 x 212 mm)

Purchased on the Sunny Crawford von Bulow Fund, 1978.

1991.6

Notes:

Watermark: none.
This leaf is from the now dismembered album 10, which David began in 1774 when he made his first trip to Italy and which is one of the artist's twelve "albums factices". He filled them mainly with rough studies of ancient art and copies of Italian paintings. The Library has five other leaves from the same album in its collection, two sketches after antique subjects (Acc. No. 1978.42:1-2), two Roman landscapes (Acc. No. 1988.39:1-2), and a portrait of Pauline Borghese (Acc. No. 1990.37).

Provenance:

Eugène and Jules David (Lugt 839 and Lugt 1437); M. Chassegnolles (David's grandson?), 1835; Germain Seligman, New York; private collection, New York; acquired from Bob P. Haboldt & Co., New York.

Associated names:

David, Eugène, former owner.
David, Jules, former owner.
Chassegnolles, M., former owner.
Seligman, Germain, former owner.

Bibliography:

Denison, Cara D., with Stephanie Wiles and Ruth S. Kraemer. Fantasy and Reality : Drawings from the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Collection. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1995, no. 21, repr.

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