DrawingsFrench18th-19th century

Pierre Baille and Charles Beauvais de Préau

1793

Artists

Jacques-Louis DavidArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black ink and gray wash over black chalk on white laid paper

Culture

French

Century

18th-19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

actual: 22.2 x 18.7 cm (8 3/4 x 7 3/8 in.)

Provenance

David sale [A. N. Pérignon, Paris, April 17,1826, part of no. 56], sold; to M. Defrense. Édouard Mortier, fifth duc de Trévise, sold [through his sale, Sotheby's, London, July 9, 1936, no. 79]; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY [via Martin Birnbaum], bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

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