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    "localId": "147526",
    "label": "The Prisoner",
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    "dtoType": "drawing"
}

{
    "id": "147526",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "The Prisoner",
    "description": "This drawing belongs to a series of enigmatic sheets that the French artist Jacques-Louis David created while living as an exile in Brussels from 1816 until his death in 1825. Many of these untitled works present close-up views of expressive heads and were given by the artist to his friends. This image of a turbaned man next to a hanging chain and oil lamp loosely references David's painting <em>The Intercession of Saint Roch</em> (1780) from much earlier in his career.",
    "date": "c. 1816–22",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.36",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79926754"
    ],
    "creators": [
        1643
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Drawing"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.36/1973.36_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.36/1973.36_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.36/1973.36_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 13.1 x 19.6 cm (5 3/16 x 7 11/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "France, 19th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1973.36"
}

{
    "tec": "black chalk on cream laid paper",
    "tombstone": "The Prisoner, c. 1816–22. Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748–1825). Black chalk on cream laid paper; sheet: 13.1 x 19.6 cm (5 3/16 x 7 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1973.36",
    "supportMaterials": [
        {
            "description": "cream(3) laid paper"
        }
    ],
    "collection": "DR - French",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "inscribed, at upper left, in black chalk: L. David, Brux.; inscribed, on an old support, now removed: 1 des. de L. David."
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "Scholars have suggested that Jacques-Louis David might have intended this drawing as a portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, who the artist supported. The former leader died a prisoner on the island of Saint Helena in 1821.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Sérullaz, Arlette. “A propos de quelques dessins de Jacques-Louis David pour ‘Mars désarmé́ par Vénus et les Grâces.’” <em>Bulletin des musées royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique</em> 21, nos. 1–4 (1972): 107-116.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 107n2"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Dessins, aquarelles, pastels, gouaches </em>[. . .] <em>tableaux anciens et du XIXe siècle</em>. Paris: Hôtel Drouot, 1972.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: no. 13 bis"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Old Master Drawings Presented by Adolphe Stein and Lorna Lowe</em>. Exh. Cat. London: H. Terry-Engell Gallery, 1972.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 9, no. 74"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Nash, Steven A. “The Drawings of Jacques-Louis David: Selected Problems.” PhD diss., Stanford University, 1973.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 241, n. 439"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \"The Year in Review for 1973.\" <em>Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 61, no. 2 (February 1974): 31-78.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 75, no. 65; Reproduced: p. 46",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152513"
        },
        {
            "citation": "“Annual Report for 1973.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 61, no. 6 (June 1974): 179–213.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 188",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152530"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Coekelberghs, Denis and Pierre Loze. <em>Autour du néo-classicisme en belgique, 1770–1830</em>. Exh. cat. Brussels: Musée Communal des Beaux-Arts d’Ixelles, 1985.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 28, 189, no. 148"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Schnapper, Antoine and Arlette Sérullaz. <em>Jacques-Louis David, 1748–1825</em>. Exh. cat. Paris: Musée du Louvre, 1989.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 106, no. 245; Reproduced: p. 554"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Noël, Bernard. <em>David</em>. New York: Crown, 1989.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 48"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Johnson, Dorothy. <em>Jacques-Louis David: Art in Metamorphosis</em>. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 231-33; Reproduced: p. 232"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Johnson, Dorothy. <em>Jacques-Louis David: The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis.</em>. Los Angeles: Getty Museum, 1997.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 30-31; Reproduced: p. 30"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lajer-Burcharth, Ewa. <em>Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David after the Terror</em>. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 324, n. 94"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Rosenberg, Pierre and Louis-Antoine Prat. <em>Jacques-Louis David, 1748–1825: Catalogue raisonné des dessins</em>. Milan: Leonardo Arte, 2002.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: vol. 1, p. 352, no. 393"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Bordes, Philippe. <em>Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile. </em>Exh. cat. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2005.",
            "page_number": "Mentioend: p. 284, no. 43; Reproduced: p. 285"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Johnson, Dorothy. “Lines of Thought: David’s Aporetic Late Drawings.\". In <em>David after David</em>, edited by Mark Ledbury. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 160"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Padiyar, Satish. “Dispossessed: On ‘Late’ David.\" In <em>David after David</em>, edited by Mark Ledbury. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 310"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Prat, Louis-Antoine. <em>Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle</em>. Paris: Louvre Editions, 2012.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 65"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Crow, Thomas E.<em> Restoration: The Fall of Napoleon in the Course of European Art, 1812–1820</em>. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced and mentioned: p. 139"
        },
        {
            "citation": "David, Jacques Louis, and Perrin Stein. Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman. 2022, 253.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced; p. 253, No. 81."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Stein, Perrin. <em>Jacques-Louis David: Radical Draftsman</em>. Exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 253, no. 81, 258"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Salsbury, Britany. <em>Nineteenth-Century French Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Lewes, UK, Cleveland, Ohio: GILES; Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 80-83, no. 5b"
        }
    ],
    "catalogueRaisonne": "Rosenberg and Prat 393",
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.36",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-18 17:15:43.898000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1973.36/1973.36_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 147526,
    "dept": "Drawings",
    "coll": "DR - French",
    "med": "black chalk on cream laid paper",
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        "male"
    ],
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}

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