Jacques-Louis David

Jules David (L.1437) and Eugène David (L.839),

probably David sale, Paris, 17 April 1826;

with Adolphe Stein;

Curtis O. Baer (1898-1976), Atlanta, his collectors mark on the backing (L.3366);

sale, New York, Sotheby's, 25 January 2023, lot 237

Atlanta, High Museum of Art, et al, Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso: The Curtis O. Baer Collection, (catalogue by Eric M. Zafran) 1985, no. 160

The present landscape drawing is unusual within David's graphic oeuvre as, unlike the majority of his landscape drawings executed in gray wash, the present work is drawn purely in pen and brown ink over red chalk. Rosenberg and Prat include two highly comparable sheets in their catalogue raisonné of the artist's drawings,¹ and a further sheet, similarly depicting a mountainous landscape, recently appeared on the French art market.²

^1. P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825, Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan 2002, vol. I, p. 618, nos. 898 and 899, reproduced

2. Sale, Paris, Millon & Associés, 19 May 2022, lot 111