Lot Essay
This could depict the three Fates - the daughters of Night, Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos - women spinning out human destinies like thread, one drawing them out, one measuring them and one cutting them off.
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Three women in classical dress, bust length, with anguished expressions
Details
Jacques-Louis David (Paris 1748-1825 Brussels)
Three women in classical dress, bust length, with anguished expressions
signed, dated and inscribed 'L. David. 1819/Brux.'
black chalk
6½ x 7 7/8 in. (16.7 x 20.3 cm.)
Three women in classical dress, bust length, with anguished expressions
signed, dated and inscribed 'L. David. 1819/Brux.'
black chalk
6½ x 7 7/8 in. (16.7 x 20.3 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Zurich, L'art Ancien [cat. no. 50], n.d., lot 68 (according to Paris 1989).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Jacques-Louis David, exh. cat., Paris, Louvre, 1989, p. 556, under no. 248.
P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825. Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan, 2002, I, p. 321, no. 345.
P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825. Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan, 2002, I, p. 321, no. 345.
Exhibited
New York, Wildenstein, Drawings, pastels and watercolors. An exhibition of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century works on paper, 1 March-30 April 1995, no. 2.
New York, Wildenstein, Neo-classicism to Barbizon: French drawings and oil sketches from the first half of the 19th Century, 25 September-30 October 1999.
New York, James Cohan Gallery, The Passions: From Brueghel to Viola, 29 November 2001-12 January 2002.
New York, Wildenstein, The Arts of France from François 1er to Napoléon 1er : A centennial celebration of Wildenstein's presence in New York, October 2005 - January 2006, no. 167.
New York, Wildenstein, Neo-classicism to Barbizon: French drawings and oil sketches from the first half of the 19th Century, 25 September-30 October 1999.
New York, James Cohan Gallery, The Passions: From Brueghel to Viola, 29 November 2001-12 January 2002.
New York, Wildenstein, The Arts of France from François 1er to Napoléon 1er : A centennial celebration of Wildenstein's presence in New York, October 2005 - January 2006, no. 167.