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Source 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.
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147526
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The Prisoner
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drawing
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147526
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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
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
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Q79926754
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1643
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 13.1 x 19.6 cm (5 3/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
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France, 19th century
accession
1973.36
Source extras
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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
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cream(3) laid paper
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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
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
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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
creditline
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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black chalk on cream laid paper
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