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.
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.