Jacques-Louis David

Claude-Marie Meunier (Saint Amour 1770–1846 Paris), the artist's son-in-law;

Thence by inheritance to his wife, Laure-Émilie-Félicité, known as Émilie, Baronne Meunier, née David (1786–1863), the artist's daughter, Calais;

Thence by descent to their son Jules Meunier (1813–1867);

Thence by inheritance to his wife Pauline Derode, baronne Meunier (1824–1903), who died without heirs;

Given to Mathilde Jeanin, daughter of her late husband's cousin Louis-Charles Jeanin (1812–1902) and wife of Marius Bianchi (1822–1904);

Thence by descent to her daughter Renée Bianchi, the Vicomtesse Fleury (1869–1948);

Thence by family descent until sold, Paris, Piasa, 13 December 2006, lot 17, for 2,700,000 euros;

With Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd, London, by 2009;

From whom acquired by the present collector. 

P.A. Coupin, Essai sur J.L. David, peintre d'histoire, ancien membre de l'Institut, officier de la Légion d'honneur, Paris 1827, p. 56;

J. du Seigneur, ‘Appendice à la notice de P. Chaussarde sur L. David’, in Revue universelle des arts, vol. XVIII, 1863, p. 367;

J.-L.-J. David, Le peintre Louis David, 1748–1825, I. Souvenirs et documents inédits, Paris 1880, pp. 509 and 647;

J.-L.-J. David, Le peintre Louis David, 1748–1825, II. Suite d'eaux-fortes d'après ses œuvres gravées par J.L. Jules David son petit-fils, Paris 1882 (etching);

L. Rosenthal, Louis David, Paris, n.d. [1904], p. 166;

C. Saunier, ‘David et son école au Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris’, in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, May 1913, p. 279;

K. Madsen in Exposition d'art français du XIXème siècle, exh. cat., Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, 1914, pp. 12 and 26, no. 67, reproduced; 

T. Möller, ‘L'Exposition d'art français du XIXème siècle à Copenhague’, in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, August 1914, p. 158, reproduced p. 159; 

R. Cantinelli, Jacques-Louis David 1748–1825, Paris and Brussels 1930, p. 112, no. 127 (as belonging to M. Bianchi);

K. Holma, David, son évolution et son style, Paris 1940, p. 128, no. 133 (as 1812);

J. Maret, David, Monaco 1943, p. 118, no. 86, reproduced (as 1812); 

L. Hautecœur, Louis David, Paris 1954, pp. 229–30 (as 1812);

R. Verbraeken, Jacques-Louis David jugé par ses contemporains et par la postérité, Paris 1973, p. 162 n. 125 and p. 249 (as c. 1812);

A. Schnapper, David: témoin de son temps, Fribourg 1980, p. 266 (as in a private collection);

P. Rosenberg and M.C. Stewart, French Paintings 1500–1825, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco 1987, pp. 146 and 147 nn. 3–5, reproduced p. 145, fig. 2 (as present location unknown);

A. Schnapper in Jacques-Louis David 1748–1825, exh. cat., Paris 1989–90, pp. 484–85, under no. 214, reproduced p. 185, fig. 135 (as whereabouts unknown);

S. Nash in Rembrandt to Renoir: 300 years of European Masterpieces from The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, exh. cat., Auckland, 1992–93, p. 114, under no. 47 (as whereabouts unknown);

A. Pongetoux in Georges Rouget 1783–1869, Élève de David, exh. cat., Paris 1995, p. 165 (under discussion of a copy attributed to Rouget in the Musée des Beaux-Arts Besançon of David's portrait of Meunier; as whereabouts unknown);

L. Eitner, French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I: Before Impressionism, The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue, Washington D.C., 2000, pp. 210 and 212 n. 13 (as unlocated);

L.-A. Prat and P. Rosenberg, Jacques-Louis David 1748–1825, Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan 2002, vol. II, p. 1215, under G 19, reproduced G 19a (as whereabouts unknown) and p. 1223, under M 83–M 84;

P. Lang in M. Reinhard-Felice (ed.), Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’ Winterthur: Complete Catalogue, Basel 2005, pp. 276–77 (as whereabouts unknown).

ETCHED

J.-L.-J. David, Le Général Baron Meunier (1812), in David 1882 

Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, Exposition d'art français du XIXème siècle, 15 May – 30 June 1914, no. 67, reproduced (as lent by Madame Bianchi);

New York, Jean-Luc Baroni, An Exhibition of Master Drawings and Paintings, 24 January – 5 February 2009, no. 36.