President and Fellows of Harvard College
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President and Fellows of Harvard College
© President and Fellows of Harvard College 1 of 13 © President and Fellows of Harvard College 2 of 13 © President and Fellows of Harvard College Gallery Text Following Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo in 1815, David was banished from France. He settled in Brussels, 3 of 13 where he painted this portrait of Sieyès (1748– 1836), a fellow exile. Sieyès had been an early proponent of the claims of the Third Estate, or the French commoners, at the outset of the Revolution in 1789. Though he lacked distinction as an orator, he remained a figure of great influence throughout the Revolution, and was instrumental in bringing Bonaparte to power in 1799. His subsequent relations with Napoleon were equivocal, though he remained in favor until he voted for the emperor’s deposition in 1814. This portrait is a restrained testament to an extraordinary depth of shared experience: both men were survivors of nearly thirty years of political turmoil in which they played considerable roles before facing the overthrow of their fortunes and the debasement of their ideals. Identification and Creation Object Number 1943.229 People Jacques-Louis David, French (Paris 1748 - 1825 Brussels) Title Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748-1836) Classification Paintings Work Type banner, painting Date 4 of 13 1817 Culture French Location Level 2, Room 2200, European and American Art, 17th– 19th century, The Emergence of Romanticism in Early Nineteenth-Century France View this object's location on our interactive map Physical Descriptions Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 97.8 x 74 cm (38 1/2 x 29 1/8 in.) frame: 114.3 x 92.1 x 8.9 cm (45 x 36 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: l.l.: L. David/ Bruxelles/1817 inscription: u.r., paint: AETATIS SUAE 69 exhibition label: [1935], back of stretcher, paper: Exposition du 3e centenaire de l'Academie Français. No. 3. Title: Portrait de Sieyes. Nom d'auteur: David. Vicomte de Berenger, 195 B' S' Germain exhibition label: [label from "David et ses eleves" exhibition] inscription: u.l., paint: EMM.JOS. SIEYES. Provenance Jacques-Louis David, painted, 1817; to Emmanuel 5 of 13 Joseph Sieyès; to Madame Combes, 1856, by descent; to Henri Vicomte de Bérenger, 1913, sold [through Birnbaum via André Weil], to; Grenville Lindall Winthrop, 1936, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop Accession Year 1943 Object Number 1943.229 Division European and American Art Contact [email protected] Publication History Pierre Alexandre Coupin, Essai sur J. L. David, peintre d'histoire, ancien membre de l'Institut, officier de la Legion-d'honneur, J. Renouard (Paris, France, 1827), pp. 42, 57 J. L. Jules David, Le Peintre Louis David: Souvenirs et documents inedits (Paris, France, 1880), etching after the painting repr. v. II; text v. I, p. 649 Prosper Dorbec, "David Portraitiste", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (1907), vol. XXVII, no. 1, pp. 324-325 David et ses élèves, exh. cat., Petit Palais, Paris (Paris, France, 1913), no. 62 6 of 13 Richard Cantinelli, Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825 , Les Editions G. van Oest (Paris, France and Brussels, Belgium, 1930), no. 144 G. Brunon Guardia, "Paris et la Revolution au Musée Carnavalet", Beaux Arts Magazine (March 1931), vol. 9, no. 3, ill. p. 18 Chinese Sculpture, Bronzes, Jades, Paintings and Drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, PreColumbian art; selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1943), p. 3 "Sixteen Reproductions", Harvard Alumni Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, January 8, 1944), vol. XLVI, pp. 217-20 [Unidentified article], The Christian Science Monitor (January 8, 1944), repr. [Untitled article], Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, January 8, 1944), vol. XLVI, repr. "Paintings from the Winthrop Collection", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum , Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, March 1945), vol. X, no. 3, pp. 98-103, p. 101, repr. Azariah Boody Sias, The Sias Family in America 1677 to 1952: The first 275 Years, Florida Press, Inc. (Orlando FL, 1952), repr. on frontispiece George Levitine, "David's 'Sieyès' in the Fogg Museum and Girodet's 'De Sèze Méditant la Defense du Roi'", The Burlington Magazine (October 1953), p. 335 S. Lane Faison, Jr., A Guide to the Art Museums of New England, Harcourt, Brace and Co. (New York, NY, 1958), p. 118, repr. p. 118, fig. 16 Gordon C. Aymar, The Art of Portrait Painting, Chilton Book Company (Philadelphia, PA, 1967), repr. pl. 32 Dorothy W. Gillerman, Gridley McKim-Smith, and Joan R. Mertens, Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a 7 of 13 Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1969), no. 83, p. 112, repr. p. 113 Agnes Mongan, Harvard Honors Lafayette, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), no. 40, pp. 115-117, repr. p. 116 Seiji Oshima, David, Shinchosha (Tokyo, Japan, 1976), p. 78, repr. in b/w Anita Brookner, Jacques-Louis David, Chatto & Windus (London, England, 1980), repr. in b/w, fig. 111 Antoine Schnapper and Arlette Sérullaz, David: Témoin de son Temps, Alpine Fine Arts Collection, Ltd. (New York, NY, 1982), repr. in color, fig. 181, p. 286, text, pps. 283, 286 Kristin A. Mortimer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums/Abbeville Press (Cambridge, MA; New York, NY, 1985), no. 197, p. 173, ill. Luc de Nanteuil, Jacques Louis David, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1985), repr. as color plate 46; text p. 162 John Leighton, Jacques-Louis David: Portrait of Jacobus Blauw, exh. cat., National Gallery (London, England, 1987), repr. in b/w fig. 13, p. 17 Régis Michel, David, L'art et le politique, Decouvertes Gallimard/Reunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1988), repr. in color p. 123 François Furet, La Revolution de Turgot a Jules Ferry 1770-1880, Histoire de France, Hachette (Paris, France, 1988), repr. in color p. 160 Antoine Schnapper and Arlette Sérullaz, ed., Jacques- Louis David, 1748-1825 , exh. cat., Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1989), repr. in b/w fig. 142, p. 513 Warren Roberts, Jacques-Louis David, Revolutionary 8 of 13 Artist, The University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC, 1989), pp. 51, 58, 64, 133, 191, 198; repr. in b/w fig. 87 Bernard Noël, L. David, Crown Publishers Inc. (New York, NY, 1989), repr. in color p. 87 Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum , Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 66, color plate; pp. 104, 221, repr. b/w cat. no. 257 Jean-Louis Ferrier, ed., L'Aventure de l'Art au XIXe Siecle, Chene-Hachette (Paris, France, 1991), repr. in color p. 157 Dorothy Johnson, "L'Experience de l'exil: l'art de David à Bruxelles", David contre David : actes du colloque organisé au musée du Louvre par le servic (Paris, France, 1993), p. 1028; repr. p. 1140 as fig. 233 Dorothy Johnson, Jacques-Louis David: Art in Metamorphosis, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ, 1993), pp. 222-224 Shigenobu Kimura, Art and Revolution, Kodansha (Tokyo, Japan, 1994), repr. in color p. 93 Barbara Maria Stafford, Artful Science: Enlightenment, Entertainment,and the Eclipse of Visual Education, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA, 1994), repr. in b/w p. 120, fig. 92 Jacques-Louis David: Portrait de Ramel, auct. cat., Maitre Binoche (Paris, France, October 18 1995), p. 26; repr. p. 33 Aileen Ribeiro, The Art of Dress: Fashion in England and France 1750 to 1820, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1995), pp. 108-109, repr. in b/w fig. 116 9 of 13 James Cuno, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, Harvard University Art Museums/Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), pp. 184-5 Dorothy Johnson, Jacques-Louis David: The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis, J. Paul Getty Museum (Santa Monica, CA, 1997), pp. 36-7, fig. 26 Sophie Monneret, David et le Néoclassicisme, Editions Pierre Terrail (Paris, France, 1998), p. 189 [Reproduction only], Studies in Romanticism , The Graduate School, Boston University (Boston, Fall 1999)., repr. on cover in b/w Simon Lee, David, Phaidon Books (London, England, 1999), no. 187, p. 294, repr. Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Necklines: The Art of Jacques- Louis David after the Terror, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 1999), p. 35; repr. p. 34 as fig. 12 Gary Tinterow and Philip Conisbee, Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1999), pp. 6, 7 Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th- Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (New York, NY, 2003), no. 21, pp. 89-91, repr. in color Christopher Riopelle, Harvard's Winthrop Collection: Nineteenth-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, exh. cat., National Gallery Company Limited (London, 2003), p. 25, cat. 12, ill. Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 21, pp. 9710 of 13 99, repr. in color Robert Dupin, "La Collection Winthrop", Universalia, Encyclopaedia Universalis (Paris, France, 2004), pp. 343-344, p. 344 Friedrich Heer and Sabine Freitag, Für eine gerechte Welt: grosse Dokumente der Menschheit, Primus (Darmstadt, 2004), detail repr. p. 114 Philippe Bordes, Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile, exh. cat., Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, CT and London, 2005), p. IX; pp. 293-295, repr. in b/w as fig. 100 Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, "The Self in Exile: David's Portrait of Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyes", David after David: Essays on the Later Work, ed. Mark Ledbury (2007), pp. 232-251, repr. in color Plate 10, repr. in b/w p. 236 Stephan Wolohojian, ed., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 2008), p. 131, repr. Joël Malrieu, "David et ses doubles: le portrait de Sieyès", Bulletin Jacques-Louis David (2014), 4, pp. 1558, pp. 29-41 and repr. in color, p. 31 Exhibition History Exposition David et ses elèves, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Paris, 04/07/1913 - 06/09/1913 Troisième centenaire de l'Académie française, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 06/01/1935 06/30/1935 Chinese sculpture, bronzes, jades, paintings and drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, PreColumbian art : selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/01/1943 - 02/28/1944 Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, 11 of 13 Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/23/1969 03/31/1969 Harvard Honors Lafayette, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/03/1975 - 03/12/1976 Master Paintings from the Fogg Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/13/1977 - 08/31/1977 Masterpieces of European Art, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 06/22/1985 - 09/15/1985 France and the Portrait, 1799-1870, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/03/1994 - 01/29/2002 A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery, London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004 For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004 Re-View: S424-426 Western Art from 1560 to 1900, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/16/2008 - 06/18/2011 Ancient to Modern, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 06/01/2013 32Q: 2200 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/01/2014 Subjects and Contexts Collection Highlights Google Art Project This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff 12 of 13 but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at [email protected] Generated on February 11, 2017 at 06:25am 13 of 13