Jacques-Louis David
Madame David
181372.9 x 59.4 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated, lower left: L. David. 1813.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 594
Provenance
bequeathed in 1826 by the sitter, Marguerite-Charlotte David, née Pécoul (1764-1826)], to her daughter, Baronne Claude-Marie Meunier, née Laure-Emilie-Félicité David (1786-1863)], Calais
her daughter-in-law, Baronne Jules Meunier, née Pauline Derode (1824-1903), Calais
the artist's great-granddaughter, Mme. Marius Bianchi, née Mathilde Jeanin, by 1913
her daughter, Caroline-Pauline-Thérèse, Comtesse Joachim Murat (1870-1940), by 1930
her sister, Renée, vicomtesse de Fleury (1869-1948)
with Pierre Cailleux, Paris, 1948-1953
jointly owned from 1953 by Otto Wertheimer (Galerie les Tourettes), Paris and M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York
sold 1954 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
gift 1961 to NGA
Other works by Jacques-Louis David
The Coronation of Napoleon in Notre-Dame
1806-07
1806-07
Portrait of Comte Henri-Amédé de Turenne
1816
1816
The Loves of Paris and Helen
1788
1788
The Fortune Teller
1824
1824
The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons
1789
1789