Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004942Bust of Angelique Mongez
Provenance
By descent to the artist’s sons, Eugene and Jules David [Lugt 839 and 1437]; sold, Paris, April 17, 1826, David sale, no. 76 or 77 (according to Bordes 2005, it was probably 77), to an unknown collector [according to Schnapper 1980]. Prince Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte (died 1891) [according to Paris 1893 sale cat.]. Hippolyte Destailleur (1822-1893), Paris, from February 1877 [inscription on third folio]; sold, Hôtel des Commissaires-Priseurs, Paris, May 26-27, 1893, Destailleur sale, no. 29, to Morgand, for 900 francs [according to annotated sale cat. in Bibliothèque Doucet]. F. Martinet; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 25, 1896, no. 92 [according to Bordes 2005]. David David-Weill (1871-1952) [according to Joachim 1974]. Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1961.
Exhibition history
Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Jacques-Louis David," October 26, 1989-February 12, 1990. Los Angeles, Calif., The J. Paul Getty Museum, "Jaques-Louis David: Empire to Exile," February 1, 2005-April 24, 2005; traveled to Williamstown, Mass., the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, June 5-September 5, 2005, cat. 11B, p. 112 (ill.).
Publications
Matthias Bleyl, Das klassizistische Porträt. Gestaltungsanalyse am Beispiel J. L, Davids (Frankfurt am Main and Bern, 1982), p. 174 note 276 and fig. 4 (ill.). Luc de Nanteuil, Jacques-Louis David (The Library of Great Painters, 1985), p. 55 fig. 74 (ill.). Autour du Néo Classicisme en Belgique, musée communal des Beaux-Arts d'Ixelles, Bruxelles (1985-1986), p. 34. Jean-Jacques Lévêque, Jacques-Louis David, édition Acr Paris (1989), repr. p. 13 (ill.), Antoine Schnapper, Arlette Sérullaz, and Elisabeth Agius-d'Yvoire, Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825 (Paris: Eds. de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1989), cat. 209 (ill.). Pierre Rosenberg, Louis-Antoine Prat, Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825: Catalogue Raisonné des dessins (Milan, 2002), no. 1762 (ill.). Philippe Bordes, Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile (New Haven, Conn., 2005), cat. 11B (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
- 1806
- Medium
- Charcoal on off-white laid paper, tipped onto cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 15.6 × 10.4 cm (6 3/16 × 4 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Helen Regenstein Collection
- Accession no.
- 1961.393.31
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