Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002932The Departure of Marcus Attilius Regulus for Carthage
Provenance
By descent to the artist’s son, Eugène [Lugt 839]; sold, April 17, 1826, J. L. David studio sale, lot 53 to M. Musigny for 1963 francs [Paris 1989]. Possibly sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 21-22, 1859, M. Mayor sale, lot 41. Possibly sold, May 2, 1863, lot 131. Édouard Desperet (1804-1865) [Lugt 721]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 7-13, 1865, Desperet sale, lot 537, to le Blanc for 54 francs [Rosenberg and Prat 2002]. Baron de Beurnonville, Paris; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 16-19, 1885, lot 291. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 1970, no cat.. Henri Baderou (1990-1991), Paris [Paris 1989]. Sold by Herman Shickman Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1976.
Exhibition history
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. 106-107, cat. 45 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the Saint Louis Art Museum, January-May 1986. Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Jacques-Louis David," October 26, 1989-February 12, 1990, cat. 78. 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. 136 (ill), 137-39, cat. 29, cat. by Perrin Stein, et. al.
Publications
A. Cantaloube, "Les dessins de Louis David," Gazette des Beaux-Arts (September 1860), pp. 301-304. Jacques Louis Jules David, Le Peintre Louis David (Paris, 1880), pp. 37, 654. R. L. Herbert, David, Voltaire, ‘Brutus’ and the French Revolution (London, 1972), pp. 18, 54-55. Daniel and Georges Wildenstein, Documents Complementaires au Catalogue de l’Oeuvre de J. L. David (Paris, 1973), pp. 237, and 244-45. C. Selss, "Some Recent Research on Jacques-Louis David," Burlington Magazine 117 (December 1975), pp. 811-813. Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1977), no. 1B11. A. Schnapper, David témoin de son temps (Fribourg, 1980), p. 89. L. de Nanteuil, Jacques-Louis David, (Paris, 1985), p. 57. J. J. Lévêque, La vie et l’oeuvre de Jacques-Louis David (Paris, 1989), p. 17. B. Nöel, David (Vaduz, 1989), p. 6. Ph. Bordes, "Jacques-Louis David," Burlington Magazine CXXXIV: 1073 (February 1990), p. 155. Pierre Rosenberg, From Drawing to Painting: Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, David, & Ingres (Princeton, N.J., 2000), pp. 163-164 (ill.). Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825: Catalogue raisonné des dessins, I (Milan, 2002), pp. 92-93, no. 77 (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
- 1785/86
- Medium
- Pen and black ink and brush and black ink wash and opaque white watercolor with black chalk and touches of brown watercolor on blue laid paper
- Dimensions
- Sight: 31 × 40.9 cm (12 1/4 × 16 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Accession no.
- 1976.58
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