id: 130163 accession number: 1952.542 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.542 updated: 2025-02-09 01:51:24.676000 Young Woman with a Turban, c. 1780. Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748–1825). Oil on canvas; framed: 76 x 66 x 8 cm (29 15/16 x 26 x 3 1/8 in.); unframed: 55.2 x 46 cm (21 3/4 x 18 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George S. Kendrick 1952.542 title: Young Woman with a Turban title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1780 creation date earliest: 1775 creation date latest: 1785 current location: 216B French and German creditline: Gift of George S. Kendrick copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - French 18th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748–1825) - artist The founder and leading painter of the neoclassical movement in France, Jacques-Louis David was born in Paris to a prosperous family of artists and archi-tects. In 1766 he entered the Académie Royale as the pupil of Joseph-Marie Vien (1716-1809). After several failed attempts, David won the Prix de Rome in 1774. The following year he left for Italy, where he studied antique art and envisioned replacing the frivolity of the rococo with an art of grandeur, simplicity, and moral virtue. After returning to Paris in 1780, he established his reputa-tion with three spectacular successes at the Salon: The Oath of the Horatii (1785, Musée du Louvre, Paris), The Death of Socrates (1787, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), and The Lictors Bring-ing Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (1789, Musée du Louvre, Paris). Widely interpreted as moral parables for contemporary political events, these archetypes of neoclassical aesthetics set the standard for academic painting of the next century. In the 1790s David joined the radical Jacobin Club and played an active role in the French Revolution. He allied himself with Robespierre, served a short term as president of the Convention, and voted for the execution of Louis XVI. He also placed his artistic talents at the service of the Revolution by creating paintings that glorified its martyrs and by organizing public festivals that celebrated the new political order. As the most prominent artist in the revolutionary ranks, he led the attack against the Académie Royale that culminated in its abolish-ment in 1793. When the excesses of the Reign of Terror precipitated the fall of Robespierre in 1794, David was imprison-ed but spared execution. Authorities released him the following year due to ill health. Around 1798 David developed a new alliance with the brilliant young general of the Directory, Napoléon Bonaparte. David's painting The Intervention of the Sabine Women (1799, Musée du Louvre, Paris) coalesced perfectly with Napoleonic propaganda urging national reconciliation. After the coup d'état of 1799, Napoléon was named first consul and began supplying David with important commissions. Upon Napoléon's coronation in 1804, David was appointed first painter to the emperor. David's monumental painting The Coronation of Napoléon, or Le Sacre (1805-7, Musée du Louvre, Paris), introduced a less spartan, more colorful and emotive style. However, as seen in his life-size portrait Napoléon in His Study (1812, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), David increasingly searched to balance this new heroic-romanticism with an exacting realism. In 1816, following Napoléon's defeat at Waterloo and the restoration of the monarchy, David went into exile in Belgium. He spent the last nine years of his life in Brussels, painting mostly mythological subjects and portraits. David died of a stroke in 1825 and was denied burial in France. --- measurements: Framed: 76 x 66 x 8 cm (29 15/16 x 26 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 55.2 x 46 cm (21 3/4 x 18 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Baron Gros, Painter of Battles: The First Romantic Painter opening date: 1956-03-08T05:00:00 Baron Gros, Painter of Battles: The First Romantic Painter. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 8-April 15, 1956). title: Jacques-Louis David opening date: 1989-10-26T04:00:00 Jacques-Louis David. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France (October 26, 1988-February 12, 1989); Musée National de Château de Versailles, 78 008 Versailles cedex, France (October 26, 1988-February 12, 1989). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'David et Ses Elèves, Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (Petit Palais), Paris, France (April 7-June 9, 1913).', 'opening_date': '1913-04-07T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'French Art since Eighteen Hundred, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 8-December 8, 1929).', 'opening_date': '1929-11-08T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 26 to October 4, 1936).', 'opening_date': '1936-06-26T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Golden Gate International Exposition. Masterworks of Five Centuries, San Francisco, CA (1939).', 'opening_date': '1939-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Masterpieces of Art from the New York and San Francisco World's Fairs, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 7-March 7, 1940).", 'opening_date': '1940-02-07T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Sculpture by Houdon. Paintings and drawings by David. Loan exhibition, Century Association, New York, NY (February 19 to April 10, 1947).', 'opening_date': '1947-02-19T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Sale?: Hôtel de Bullion, Didot Collection, Paris, France, 6 April 1825 (lot 114). date: 6 April 1825 footnotes: citations: Sale: Baron Gros, Paris, France, November-1 December 1835 (lot 127). date: November-1 December 1835 footnotes: citations: Augustin Alexandre Dumont (1801-1884), Paris, France date: footnotes: citations: Mme Audard date: by 1913 footnotes: citations: Henry G. Dalton (1862-1932), Cleveland, OH, left to his grandson, George S. Kendrick date: by 1929-1932 footnotes: citations: George S. Kendrick (1899-1979), Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1932-1952 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1952- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lajer-Burcharth, Ewa, and Jacques Louis David. Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David After the Terror. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1999. page number: 124 url: Didot, Lacoste, Gibé, and Henry. Catalogue d'une précieuse collection de tableaux choisis dans toutes les écoles anciennes et modernes. Paris: Se distribué ... chez M. Lacoste, commissaire-priseur, M. Gibé, commissaire-priseur, M. Henry, commissaire-expert des Musées royaux, 1825. page number: lot 114 url: David, J. L. Jules. Le peintre Louis David, 1748-1825; souvenirs & documents inédits. Paris: V. Havard, 1880. page number: 1:634 url: Musée du Petit Palais (Paris, France). Exposition David et ses élèves, 7 avril-9 juin, 1913, Palais des beaux-arts de la ville de Paris: catalogue. 1913. page number: no. 19 url: W. M. M. “French Art since Eighteen Hundred.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 16, no. 9 (1929) page number: p. 159 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137246 Arts 16 (January 1930). page number: pp. 322, 324 url: Cantinelli, R., Jacques Louis David, and R. Cantinelli. Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825. 1930. page number: No. 36 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition : June Twenty-Sixth to October Fourth 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: [Cleveland Museum of Art], 1936. page number: no. 267 url: Art News (13 June 1936). page number: 13 url: San Francisco (Calif.). Historical American Paintings; Official Catalog, Department of Fine Arts, Golden Gate International Exposition. 1939. page number: no. 111 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and William Mathewson Milliken. Masterpieces of Art from the New York and San Francisco World's Fairs; The Cleveland Museum of Art, February 7 Through March 7, 1940. 1940. page number: no. 228 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and William Mathewson Milliken. Masterpieces of Art from the New York and San Francisco World's Fairs; The Cleveland Museum of Art, February 7 Through March 7, 1940. 1940. page number: no. 9 url: Holma, Klaus. David, son evolution et son style. Paris: [P. Lejay], 1940. page number: 126, no. 38 url: Century Association (New York, N.Y.), William Mathewson Milliken, and James Thrall Soby. Sculpture by Houdon. Paintings and Drawings by David. Loan Exhibition, February 19 to April 10, 1947. 1947. page number: no. 21 url: Florisoone, Michel. David: exposition en l'honneur du deuxième centenaire de sa naissance [juin-septembre, 1948]. [Paris]: Éditions des Musées Nationaux, 1948. page number: 41, 43 url: Coe, Nancy. The History of the Collecting of European Paintings and Drawings in the City of Cleveland. 1955. page number: 2:45 url: Lindsay, Jack. Death of the Hero; French Painting from David to Delacroix. London: Studio, 1961. page number: p. 40, fig. 5 url: Francis, Henry S. “Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres: Antiochus and Stratonice.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 55, no. 4 (1968) page number: p. 112, n.9 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152209 Sutton, Denys. France in the Eighteenth Century. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1968. page number: 62, no. 177 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 164 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n188 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 202 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n222 Sloane, Joseph C., and John Minor Wisdom. French Nineteenth Century Oil Sketches, David to Degas: An Exhibition in Honor of the Retirement of Joseph Curtis Sloane ... : the William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 5 Through April 16, 1978. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University, 1978. page number: p. 50 url: David, Jacques Louis, Antoine Schnapper, Arlette Sérullaz, and Elisabeth Agius-d'Yvoire. Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825. Paris: Eds. de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1989. page number: no. 45 url: Bordes, Philippe "Paris and Versailles: David." Burlington Magazine (February 1990). page number: 154 url: Scott, Barbara. "Letter from Paris: David's Portraits." Apollo 131 (February 1990). page number: 115-6 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Alan Chong. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. page number: 54 url: Michel, Régis. David contre David: actes du colloque organisé au Musée du Louvre par le Service culturel du 6 au 10 décembre 1989. Paris: Documentation française, 1993. page number: 2: 899 url: Monneret, Sophie, and Jacques Louis David. David and Neo-Classicism. Paris: Terrail, 1999. page number: 66-67 url: Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 190-193, Vol. I, no. 71 url: Géricault, Théodore, and Bruno Chenique. Géricault, au coeur de la création romantique: études pour Le radeau de la Méduse. [Paris]: Chaudun, 2012. page number: p. 34, fig 111.5 url: Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc. "Lot 11 : Jacques-Louis David." Revolution, April 13, 2016: [46]-[51]. page number: Reproduced: p. [48], fig. 2 url: Arendsee, M., and M. Steinman-Arendsee. "Take the CAN disability aesthetics tour, at the Cleveland Museum of art." CAN Journal (Winter 2019/20): 76-87. page number: Mentioned: p. 77 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.542/1952.542_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.542/1952.542_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.542/1952.542_full.tif