Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002204Head of an Old Man in Profile
Provenance
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.
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.
Publications
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.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jacques-Louis David / French, 1748-1825
- Date
- c. 1791 or 1816–1820
- Medium
- Black chalk, on bluish-white laid paper, laid down on tan wove card
- Dimensions
- 23 × 23.1 cm (9 1/16 × 9 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- ink or chalk wash
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
- Accession no.
- 1960.196
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