Profile of Napoleon
Jacques Louis David
c. 1810
Medium
Black chalk, with touches of black crayon, on off-white laid paper, edge mounted on cream wove card
Dimensions
18.5 × 13.8 cm (7 5/16 × 5 7/16 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113577
About the Artist
Jacques Louis David · 1748–1825
Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), born in Paris on August 30 to a prosperous family, faced early tragedy when his father was killed in a duel around age nine. Raised by his mother's two architect uncles after his mother departed, David overcame family resistance to architecture and a facial tumor that hindered his speech and studies at the Collège des Quatre-Nations. He began training under the Roc...