Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004952Sketch of a Woman's Head
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
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Imaging the Body: From Fragment to Total Display," January 30-April 28, 1992.
Publications
Pierre Rosenberg, Louis-Antoine Prat, Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825: Catalogue Raisonné des dessins (Milan, 2002), no. 1772 (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. 1810
- Medium
- Black chalk, on off-white laid paper, edge mounted on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 21 × 16.4 cm (8 5/16 × 6 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Helen Regenstein Collection
- Accession no.
- 1961.393.41
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