1943.801: Study for "The Oath of the Tennis Court"; verso: Acanthus leaf motif in outline

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.801

People

Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine, French (Misy-Fault-Yonne 1745 - 1830 Paris)
Previously attributed to Jacques-Louis David, French (Paris 1748 - 1825 Brussels)

Title

Study for "The Oath of the Tennis Court"; verso: Acanthus leaf motif in outline

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1804-1805

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297999

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brush and pale and dark gray wash over black chalk on bluish-white laid paper; verso: graphite

Dimensions

23 x 30 cm (9 1/16 x 11 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: Verso: brown ink, upper left: JD[?] and figures

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.801

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Harold Joachim, The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1974), p. 114
• Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 285, 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. 23 (color), p. 29

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