Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)

Preparations for the Battle at the Milvian Bridge: The Gallic Cavalry and Infantry, after Polidoro

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Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)
Preparations for the Battle at the Milvian Bridge: The Gallic Cavalry and Infantry, after Polidoro
inscribed 'dapres jules romain'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, in a Louis XIV baguette frame
214 x 309 mm.
Provenance
J. and E. David (L. 1437 and 839).
Literature
A. Sérullaz, David et Rome, exhib. cat., Académie de France, Rome, 1981, p. 69, note 32.
Exhibited
New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, Drawings from the Collection of Lore and Rudolf Heinemann, 1973, no. 9, illustrated.

Lot Essay

This and the following lot are copies after two of the small grisailles painted under the Battle of Constantine against Maxence in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican. The frescoes were all executed by pupils of Raphael, and the basamenti were attributed to Giulio Romano by Vasari, a tradition that David followed. These frescoes are today sometimes attributed to Polidoro.
Another drawing similarly copied by David from one of the camaieu basamenti and also inscribed 'd'après Jules Romain' is in the Louvre, A. Sérullaz, Inventaire Général des Dessins, Ecole française, Dessins de Jacques-Louis David, Paris, 1991, no. 17, illustrated.

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