President and Fellows of Harvard College

© President and Fellows of Harvard College
1 of 9
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
2 of 9
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Identification and Creation
Object Number
1943.799
People
Jacques-Louis David, French (Paris 1748 - 1825
Brussels)
Title
Study for "The Oath of the Tennis Court"
Classification
3 of 9
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1790
Culture
French
Physical Descriptions
Medium
Brown and black ink and graphite, squared in graphite,
on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
66.2 x 99 cm (26 1/16 x 39 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
inscription: lower left, graphite, in artist's hand: les
pierres / sont Blanches
watermark: Shield with beehive; countermark: J. HONIG
/ ZOONEN
inscription: center left, graphite, in artist's hand: 8
planches sur le couloir; also notations indicating width
and depth of the balcony at upper right: 3p-4, 2p-6;
the width of the roof: 8 plus...; and height of columned
ledge on the arcade on the left: 2p-8
Provenance
Given by the artist to his student José de Madrazo y
4 of 9
Agudo; his son Federigo de Madrazo y Kuntz; his son
Mariano Fortuny y Marsal; his son Mariano Fortuny y
Madrazo; acquired through Martin Birnbaum by
Grenville L. Winthrop, october 1934 (Fr. 25,000); his
bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of
Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.799
Division
European and American Art
Contact
[email protected]
Descriptions
Description
The drawing was previously folded into sixteenths,
although currently the folds dividing it into eighths are
more visible. On the verso, two of the eight sections are
covered in brown wash strokes, presumably offloading
the brush or testing (by David or someone else).
Publication History
David Lloyd Dowd, Pageant-Master of the Republic ,
University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, Nebraska, 1948),
pg. 38, no. 57, pl. 8
5 of 9
Steven Alan Nash, "The Drawings of Jacques-Louis
David: Selected Problems" (1973), Stanford University
Press, pp. 98, 111, 222, no. 270, fig. 121
Philippe Bordes, "Jacques-Louis David's 'Serment du
Jeu de Paume': Propaganda without a Cause?", Oxford
Art Journal, Oxford University Press (UK) (Oxford,
October 1980), 3, pg. 569
Arlette Sérullaz, "Un carnet de croquis de JacquesLouis David", La revue du Louvre, Conseil des musées
nationaux (Paris, 1980), 2, p. 107, no. 14
Antoine Schnapper, David, témoin de son temps, La
Bibliothèque des Arts and Office du Livre (Paris;
Fribourg, 1980), pp. 108, 112, fig. 53
Philippe Bordes, "Le Serment du Jeu de Paume" de
Jacques-Louis David: Le peintre, son milieu et son
temps, de 1789 à 1792.", Notes et documents de
musées de France, Editions de la Réunion des Musées
Nationaux (1983), 8, no. 24, fig. 83, and pp. 42, 50, 57,
104, nn. 129-30, p. 196 under no. 13, p. 198 under no. 17,
pg.199 under no. 19, pg. 212 under no. 26 (fo. 20v), pg.
228 under no. 27 (fol. 17v, 20v)pg. 229 under no. 27 (fol.
22r)
Wolfgang Kemp, "Das Revolutionstheater des
Jacques-Louis David: Eine neue Interpretation des
Schwurs im Ballhaus.", Marburger Jahrbuch für
Kunstwissenschaft, Verlag des Kunstgeschichtlichen
Seminars der Universität Marburg an der Lahn
(Marburg, 1986), 21, pp. 167 (fig. 5), 169
Antoine Schnapper and Arlette Sérullaz, ed., Jacques-
Louis David, 1748-1825 , exh. cat., Editions de la
Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1989),
pp. 246-48, fig. 74
Bernard Noël, L. David, Crown Publishers Inc. (New
York, NY, 1989), repro. pg. 33
6 of 9
Jean-Jacques Lévêque, La vie et l'oeuvre de Jacques-
Louis David, ACR Édition (Courbevoie (Paris), 1989),
repro. pg. 99
Denis Milhau, "Discours d'histoire, discours d'actualité:
Quelques remarques à propos de David et de la
modernité.", Bulletin du Musée Ingres, Société des
amis du Musée Ingres (Montauban, 1990), 61-62, pg.
98
Arlette Sérullaz, Dessins de Jacques-Louis David,
1748-1825 , Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris,
1991), under nos. 197, 207, 226 (fol. 20, 22r)
M. Volpi, "David anacronista", Studi in onore di Giulio
Carlo Argan, La Nuova Italia Editrice (Florence, 1994),
pp. 288-89, fig. 3 (reversed)
Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the
Fogg Art Museum , Harvard University Press
(Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 69, repr.
Milena Kalinovska, New Histories, exh. cat., ed. Lia
Gangitano, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
(Boston, MA, 1996), repr. p. 129
Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Jacques-
Louis David 1748-1825: Catalogue raisonné des
dessins, Leonardo Arte (Milan, 2002), no. 116, repro.
Vincent Pomarède, "La Collection Winthrop: A la
recherche de la beauté pure", L'Estampille/L'Objet
d'art (April 2003), no. 379, pp. 34-45, repr. p. 37 (color)
Richard Wrigley, "'Le Serment du Jeu de paume' de
Jacques-Louis David et la représentation de l'homme
du peuple en 1791", Revue de l'Art (2003), no. 141, pp.
9-24, pp. 12-13, figs. 7, 8 (detail)
Anne Bertrand, "Winthrop: le dessein d'une collection",
L'Oeil (March 2003), no. 545, p. 46
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-
Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L.
7 of 9
Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The
Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press
(New York, NY, 2003), cat. no. 17, repr. (color), p. 29
Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler,
Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat.,
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des
Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 17, repr.
Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle,
Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), repr. p. 46 as fig.
79
Exhibition History
French Romanticism of the 1830's, Fogg Art Museum,
Cambridge, 01/16/1943 - 02/12/1943
The Age of Romanticism , Busch-Reisinger Museum,
Cambridge, 03/15/1986 - 05/18/1986
A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and
Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection,
Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon,
Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery,
London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
HAA 10 Survey Course: The Western Tradition, Art
Since the Renaissance, Harvard University Art
Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/09/2008
- 03/02/2008
Modern Art and Modernity, Harvard Art Museums,
Cambridge, 01/31/2013 - 06/01/2013
This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff
but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently
revised and enhanced. For more information please
contact the Division of European and American Art at
8 of 9
[email protected]
Generated on September 30, 2016 at 08:50am
9 of 9