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Object record excerpt for Lost Art ID: 533093
© A. W.
Unknown (attributed to Jacques Louis David)
Recto: Female head, Verso: Death body
Red chalk and pencil on paper, 346 x 271 mm
on recto, lower left, round stamp [Lugt 464]; lower left, inscribed in ink: “GD[?]”
on verso, pencil drawing of a lying male nude; upper right, illegible inscription in pencil; lower right,
inscribed in pencil: “195_98”
Provenance:
(…)
L.J.A. Coutan, Paris (per stamp)
(…)
By latest 1989: Cornelius Gurlitt, Munich/Salzburg (per Cornelius Gurlitt Papers)
From 6 May 2014: Estate of Cornelius Gurlitt
Bibliographical reference:
Lugt, Frits. Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d’Estampes. 1st ed., Amsterdam: Vereenigde
Drukkerijen, 1921; supplement, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1956. [no. L.464]
www.marquesdecollections.fr/detail.cfm/marque/6067/total/1 (14 April 2016)
Primary source:
Condition Report, 3 April 2014, no. Wien-195_98
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Cornelius Gurlitt Papers, Salzburg:
List, no. N_1826_37_0038 [10 November 1989], [item no. 32]
Register of the Salzburg Estate, 2014, no. Wien-195_98
Further sources consulted (selected):
Clément, Charles. “Quelques compositions de Géricault”. In: Gazette des beaux-arts la doyenne
des revues d'art. Vol. 20, Paris: self publ., 1866.
Clément, Charles. “Catalogue de l'œuvre de Géricault”. In: Gazette des beaux-arts la doyenne des
revues d'art. Vol. 23, Paris: self publ., 1867.
Vente après décès: collection Coutain-Hauguet catalogue des tableaux aquarelles, dessins par
Bonington, Charlet, David, Decamps, Eugène Delacroix Lau Delaroche Fielding, Géricault, Girodet,
Granet, Gros, Guèrin, Ingres, Proud’hon, H. Vernet, J. Vernet, etc. Auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot, Paris,
16–17 December 1889.
Catalogue de tableaux par Boudin, Clays, Constable, Corot, Daubigny, Delacroix, Diaz, J. Dupré,
Fantin-Latour, Fromentin, Géricault, Gérôme, Goya, Guignet, Isabey, Madou, H. Regnault, Roybet,
Rubens, Alf. Stevens, J. Stevens, Teniers, Troyon, Verwée, Vibert, Willems, Ziem composant la
collection de feu M. Eugène Lyon, de Bruxelles. Auct. cat., Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 7 May
1903.
Oprescu, George. Géricault. Paris: La Renaissance du Livre, 1927.
Schmidt, Werner. Von Géricault bis Picasso: französische Graphik des 19 und 20. Jahrhunderts,
Ausstellungs- und Bestandskatalog des Berliner Kupferstichkabinetts. Berlin: Staatliche Museen zu
Berlin, 1965.
Grunchec, Philippe. L' opera completa di Gericault. Milan: Rizzoli, 1978.
Gericault. Exh. cat., Villa Medici, Rome, November 1979–January 1980.
Bazin, Germain, ed. Théodore Géricault: L'homme: biographie, témoignages et documents. 4 vols.
Paris: Bibliothèque des Arts, 1987–1990.
Bazin, Germain, ed. Théodore Géricault: Annexes aux 7 volumes du catalogue raisonné. Paris:
Bibliothèque des Arts, 1997.
Business records Hildebrand Gurlitt
Correspondence Hildebrand Gurlitt
Cultural Plunder by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg: Database of Art Objects at the Jeu de
Paume
Database “Central Collecting Point München”
Database “Kunstsammlung Hermann Göring”
Getty Provenance Index, German Sales Catalogs
Lootedart.com
Lost Art
Répertoire des Biens Spoliés
Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
Verzeichnis national wertvoller Kunstwerke (“Reichsliste von 1938”)
Witt Library
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Note:
This work had previously been attributed to Théodore Géricault. However, this attribution could
not be verified. The work has now tentatively been attributed to Jacques Louis David on the basis
of two paintings by the artist, that these drawings could be a study for. The drawing for the
female could be associated with the painting Bélisaire demandant l’aumône, in the Palais des
beaux-arts, Lille, inv. no. P436. The drawing for the lying male could be a study for the painting La
douleur et les regrets d’Andromaque sur le corps d’Hector son mari, in the Musée du Louvre, Paris,
inv. no. D.L. 1969-1. Further research is necessary to confirm the attribution to David.
A reference to one David drawing titled Frauenkopf can be found in the papers of Cornelius
Gurlitt.
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