Roman Album No. 4: Italian Landscapes and Antiquities
1775/80
Medium
album of 61 drawings and 21 tracings in an album consisting of 22 pages in all, with 21 rectos and 2 versos bearing drawings
Dimensions
overall (size of closed album): 52.2 x 35.5 cm (20 9/16 x 14 in.) page size (greenish pages): 48.6 x 33 cm (19 1/8 x 13 in.) page size (white pages): 50.5 x 33.4 cm (19 7/8 x 13 1/8 in.)
Classification
Volume
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
1998.105.1
About the Artist
Jacques-Louis David · 1748–1825
Jacques-Louis David, born on August 30, 1748, in Paris, emerged as the preeminent French painter of Neoclassicism, a movement emphasizing austere lines, moral clarity, and classical antiquity as antidotes to Rococo frivolity. Orphaned young after his father's death in a duel, he was raised by prosperous architect uncles and educated at the Collège des Quatre-Nations. Defying family expectations, D...