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Flying Figure Holding a Crown, Reclining River God

n.d.
Not on view
As a student at the French Academy, David filled sketchbooks with drawings after antique as well as Baroque art, including this sketch of figures from Pietro da Cortona's fresco, The Assumption of the Virgin, in the apse of the Church of Santa Maria in Vallicella in Rome. In this drawing, one of two that he made after this fresco, David has modified the relative placement of the two figures as they appear in Cortona's ceiling to conform to the format of his sheet.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Flying Figure Holding a Crown, Reclining River God
  • Artist: Jacques Louis David (French, Paris 1748–1825 Brussels)
  • Date: n.d.
  • Medium: Black chalk
  • Dimensions: 6 7/16 x 5 1/2 in. (16.3 x 14 cm.)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1963
  • Object Number: 63.92.1
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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