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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.804
People
Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine, French (Misy-Fault-Yonne 1745 - 1830 Paris)
Formerly attributed to Jacques-Louis David, French (Paris 1748 - 1825 Brussels)
Title
The Oath of the Tennis Court
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1805/1814
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297564

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brush and gray and brown wash, white gouache, and graphite over black and brown ink on yellow-brown tracing paper, laid down
Dimensions
51 x 78 cm (20 1/16 x 30 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Black ink, lower left, between the two groups of tennis balls: 1805; further to the right: 1814

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.804
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 284, repr.
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), fig. 26 (color), p. 29

Exhibition History

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