Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006196Nude Soldiers Gesticulating with Their Weapons (recto); Two Drapery Studies for the Figure of Tatius (verso)
Inscriptions
Inscription, lower right, brown ink: "David facit. anno5."
Provenance
Private collection, Switzerland; sold, Christie’s, London, Dec. 6, 1972, lot 165, to Stella [according to sale price list]. Sold, Christie’s, London, July 5, 1988, lot 141, to a private collector; sold, Sotheby’s, New York, Jan. 28, 2015, lot 156, through François Borne to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Exhibition history
New York, Wildenstein and Co., The Arts of France from François 1er to Napoléon 1er: A Centennial Celebration of Wildenstein’s Presence in New York, 2005–6, cat. 149 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, pp. 66-67, cat. 26, p. 139, GC 81, traveled to New York, The Morgan Library, February 19 - June 6, 2021, and Berkeley CA, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, August 4 - November 28, 2021.
Publications
Antoine Schnapper and Arlette Sérullaz, Jacques-Louis David, 1748–1825, exh. cat. (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1989–90), p. 347, under no. 152. Arlette Sérullaz, Dessins de Jacques-Louis David, 1748–1825 (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1991), p. 106, under no. 203. Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Jacques-Louis David, 1748–1825: Catalogue raisonné des dessins (Leonardo Arte, 2002), vol. 1, p. 181, no. 165 (ill.); vol. 2, p. 994, under no. 1524.
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
- 1796/97
- Medium
- Black chalk and pen and black ink, with touches of white chalk (recto) and black chalk, with touches of red and white chalk (verso) on cream laid paper, pieced
- Dimensions
- 40.9 × 55 cm (16 1/8 × 21 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2019.841
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