Two Studies of the Head of a Young Man Crowned with a Laurel Wreath
Jacques-Louis David
1775/1780
Medium
black chalk on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 11.75 × 18.1 cm (4 5/8 × 7 1/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Bequest of William B. Jordan and Robert Dean Brownlee
Accession Number
2019.45.9
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...