Flying Figure Holding a Crown, Reclining River God

Jacques Louis David

n.d. · Black chalk · Drawings and Prints

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.

Artist

Jacques Louis David

Date

n.d.

Medium

Black chalk

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1963