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*Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) the death of marat. Signed and inscribed: A MARAT/DAVID. Graphite. 168 by 149mm. Provenance: Angelique Mongez; H. Destailleur, his sale, Paris, 26-27 May 1893, in lot 30 (Livre de croquis de Louis David); Wildenstein, New York, 1953; private collection, Buenos Aires; sale, Berne, Galerie Kornfeld, 18-21 June 1980, lot 173. Exhibited: Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, Five Centuries of Drawings, 1953, cat.180, illus.; Toulouse, Musee des Augustins and Montauban, Musee Ingres, Ingres et ses Maitres, de Roques a David, 1955, cat.53A; Paris, Musee du Louvre and Versailles, Musee Nationale du Chateau, Jacques-Louis David, 1989-90, cat.120, illus. (as attributed to David). Literature: K.E. Maison, 'Note on a Drawing by J.L. David: The Death

*Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)
the death of marat.
Signed and inscribed: A MARAT/DAVID.
Graphite.
168 by 149mm.
Provenance: Angelique Mongez; H. Destailleur, his sale, Paris, 26-27 May 1893, in lot 30 (Livre de croquis de Louis David); Wildenstein, New York, 1953; private collection, Buenos Aires; sale, Berne, Galerie Kornfeld, 18-21 June 1980, lot 173. Exhibited: Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, Five Centuries of Drawings, 1953, cat.180, illus.; Toulouse, Musee des Augustins and Montauban, Musee Ingres, Ingres et ses Maitres, de Roques a David, 1955, cat.53A; Paris, Musee du Louvre and Versailles, Musee Nationale du Chateau, Jacques-Louis David, 1989-90, cat.120, illus. (as attributed to David). Literature: K.E. Maison, 'Note on a Drawing by J.L. David: The Death of Marat', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol.69, January 1967, p.61, illus.; A. Serullaz, Dessins Francais du Musee du Louvre, J.L. David, Paris 1991, p. 287, under cat.229. This drawing will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonne of David's drawings being prepared by the Wildenstein Institute. Originally, it was included in an album, itself preserved in the Louvre, which had belonged to Madame Mongez and included many fine studies by David. A chalk annotation on the inside of the front cover describes the contents which included the Croquis de Marat assassine par Ch. Corday. Along with some of the other drawings in the album, this was detached after the Destailleur sale. Previously considered to be a study begun at the scene of Marat's death which David visited, and was so struck by, it is in fact more likely that this is David's ricordo of the finished painting. David's painting the Death of Marat, now in Brussels (Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts) is surpassingly famous as an image. He was given the commission, one of three such works glorifying martyrs of the Revolution executed by David, on 14 July 1793 (Marat having been assassinated the day before); and he announced its completion on 14 October of that year. At this time David was deeply involved in the politics of the Revolution and had allied himself closely with Robespierre; in 1793 he had voted for the death of Louis xvi. *Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)
the death of marat.
Signed and inscribed: A MARAT/DAVID.
Graphite.
168 by 149mm.
Provenance: Angelique Mongez; H. Destailleur, his sale, Paris, 26-27 May 1893, in lot 30 (Livre de croquis de Louis David); Wildenstein, New York, 1953; private collection, Buenos Aires; sale, Berne, Galerie Kornfeld, 18-21 June 1980, lot 173. Exhibited: Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, Five Centuries of Drawings, 1953, cat.180, illus.; Toulouse, Musee des Augustins and Montauban, Musee Ingres, Ingres et ses Maitres, de Roques a David, 1955, cat.53A; Paris, Musee du Louvre and Versailles, Musee Nationale du Chateau, Jacques-Louis David, 1989-90, cat.120, illus. (as attributed to David). Literature: K.E. Maison, 'Note on a Drawing by J.L. David: The Death of Marat', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol.69, January 1967, p.61, illus.; A. Serullaz, Dessins Francais du Musee du Louvre, J.L. David, Paris 1991, p. 287, under cat.229. This drawing will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonne of David's drawings being prepared by the Wildenstein Institute. Originally, it was included in an album, itself preserved in the Louvre, which had belonged to Madame Mongez and included many fine studies by David. A chalk annotation on the inside of the front cover describes the contents which included the Croquis de Marat assassine par Ch. Corday. Along with some of the other drawings in the album, this was detached after the Destailleur sale. Previously considered to be a study begun at the scene of Marat's death which David visited, and was so struck by, it is in fact more likely that this is David's ricordo of the finished painting. David's painting the Death of Marat, now in Brussels (Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts) is surpassingly famous as an image. He was given the commission, one of three such works glorifying martyrs of the Revolution executed by David, on 14 July 1793 (Marat having been assassinated the day before); and he announced its completion on 14 October of that year. At this time David was deeply involved in the politics of the Revolution and had allied himself closely with Robespierre; in 1793 he had voted for the death of Louis xvi.