Painted ca. 1812 [1]

Baronne Laure-Emilie Meunier, Calais, after 1812

Baronne J. Meunier, Calais, ca. 1880

Mme Marius Bianchi, nee Mathilde Jeanin, great-granddaughter of J.-L. David, by 1913

Comtesse Joachim Murat, ca. 1930-1940

Marquis de Ludre-Frolois, March 1947

[Galerie Cailleux, Paris, by 1948]

[M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, 1954]

Roscoe and Margaret Oakes, San Francisco, 4 October 1955 [2]

Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1975


[1] David 1880-1882, 1:648.
[2] On loan to the de Young Museum 1956-1972, and to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor 1972-1975.

1913, Paris. Palais des Beaux-Arts (Petit Palais). “David et ses élèves,” 7 April - 9 June, no. 54.

1914, Copenhagen. Statens Museum for Kunst. "Exposition des peintures," no catalogue.

1948, London-Manchester. “David 1748-1825.” Tate Gallery, London; City Art Gallery, Manchester, no. 25.

1948, Paris. Musée de l'Orangerie. “David: Exposition en l'honneur du deuxième centenaire de sa naissance,” June - September, no. 65.

1950, Paris. Galerie Charpentier. “Cent portraits de femmes,” February, no. 25b.

1952, Paris. Galerie Bernheim-Jeune. “Peintres de portraits,” 17 May - 28 June, no. 17.

1978-1979, Denver-New York-Minneapolis. “Masterpieces of French Art: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.” Denver Art Museum, 26 December 1978 - 18 February 1979; New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., 14 March - 27 April 1979; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 24 May - 1 July 1979, no. 9.

2005, Los Angeles-Williamstown. "Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile." Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1 February - 24 April 24; Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 5 June - 5 September.

Alexandre Lenoir. Étude inédite sur David in Traité philosophique des arts… vol. 3 (MS coll., Foundation Wildenstein, Paris), p. 93, opposite 93.

Jacques-Louis-Jules David. Le peintre Louis David (1748-1825): Souvenirs et documents inédits. 2 vols. Paris: Victor Havard, 1880-1882, 2:487, 648, repr. vol. 2.

Charles Saunier. Louis David. Paris: H. Laurens, [1903], pp. 107-108.

Léon Rosenthal. Louis David. Paris: Librairie de l'Art Ancien et Moderne, 1905, pp. 130, 166.

Charles Saunier. "David et son école au palais des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris.” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 671 (May 1913): p. 279.

Tyge Moller. "L’exposition de l'art français du XIXe siècle à Copenhague." Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 686 (August 1914): 2:158.

Richard Cantinelli. Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825. Paris: G. Van Ouest, 1930, p. 113, no. 129, pl. 74.

Klaus Holma. David: Son évolution et son style. Paris: P. Lejay, 1940, p. 129, no. 135.

Jacques Maret. David. Monaco: Les Documents d'Art, 1943, pl. 87.

Louis Hautecoeur. Louis David. Paris: La Table Ronde, 1954, p. 230.

The Art Quarterly (Winter 1956): p. 421.

Helen Comstock. “The Connoisseur in America.” The Connoisseur 138, no. 555 (September 1956): p. 74.

Paul Wescher. “Neuerwerbungen des De Young Museums in San Francisco.” Kunstchronik (October 1957): p. 311.

Jean Leymarie. French Painting: The Nineteenth Century. Geneva: Skira, 1962, p. 25.

Paul Cailleux and Jean Cailleux. Cailleux 1912-1962. Paris: Cailleux, 1963, repr.

European Works of Art in the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum. San Francisco: Diablo Press, 1966, p. 216, repr.

John Maxon. "J. L. David's Portrait of the Marquise de Pastoret.” Art News 66, no. 7 (November 1967): p. 46, fig. 4 on 45.

Anita Brookner. Jacques-Louis David. London: Chatto and Windus, 1980, pp. 169-170.

Antoine Schnapper. David, témoin de son temps. Fribourg: Office du Livre, 1980, p. 266.

William R. Wilson. The Los Angeles Times Book of California Museums. New York: Abrams, 1985, p. 76, pl. 68 (color).

Pierre Rosenberg and Marion C. Stewart. French Paintings 1500-1825: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1987, pp. 144-147, repr.