Jacques-Louis David - Madame David



Jacques-Louis David
Madame David
1813
72.9 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


Exhibitions

2005 Jacques-Louis David: Empire in Exile, Nr. 23

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

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1961.9.14

Other works by Jacques-Louis David


Jacques-Louis David The Coronation of Napoleon in Notre-Dame
The Coronation of Napoleon in Notre-Dame
1806-07

Jacques-Louis David Portrait of Comte Henri-Amédé de Turenne
Portrait of Comte Henri-Amédé de Turenne
1816

Jacques-Louis David The Fortune Teller
The Fortune Teller
1824

Jacques-Louis David The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons
The Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons
1789

Jacques-Louis David Mars Disarmed by Venus and the Graces
Mars Disarmed by Venus and the Graces
1824