Friday, October 21, 2022

Neoclassical Drawings Preserved at the Louvre - II

Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin
Design for l'Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile
1806
drawing
Musée du Louvre

François Gérard
Art Masterpieces arriving in Paris from Italy
following the Treaty of Tolentino

ca. 1797-98
drawing
Musée du Louvre

François Gérard
Académie
ca. 1790
drawing
Musée du Louvre

François Gérard
Half-Length Figure Study
ca. 1800
drawing
Musée du Louvre

François Gérard
Half-Length Figure Study
ca. 1800-1810
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Joseph-Marie Vien
Triumph of the Constitution of 1793
ca. 1793
drawing
Musée du Louvre

"The French people, convinced that forgetfulness and contempt of the natural rights of man are the sole causes of the miseries of the world, have resolved to set forth in a solemn declaration these sacred and inalienable rights, in order that all the citizens, being able to compare unceasingly the acts of the government with the aim of every social institution, may never allow themselves to be oppressed and debased by tyranny; and in order that the people may always have before their eyes the foundations of their liberty and their welfare, the magistrate the rule of his duties, the legislator the purpose of his commission.  In consequence, it proclaims in the presence of the Supreme Being the following Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen . . . " 

– opening of Constitution of the Year I (1793)

(This Constitution was drawn up by the Convention and was submitted to the people.  Although accepted by them, it was never put in operation, being first temporarily suspended and afterwards set aside.) 

Joseph-Marie Vien
Priam offering Libation to Jupiter
1783
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Joseph-Marie Vien
Hector's Farewell to Andromache
ca. 1786
drawing
Musée du Louvre

François-André Vincent
Infant Pyrrhus at the Court of Glaucias of Taulantii
ca. 1790-91
drawing
Musée du Louvre

François-André Vincent
La Mélancolie
1801
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Jacques-Louis David
Scene of Sacrifice
(study of antique column-base)
ca. 1775-80
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Jacques-Louis David
Two Figures with Cloaks and Swords
(study of antique relief)
ca. 1775-80
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Jacques-Louis David
Death of Meleager
(study of antique sarcophagus relief)
ca. 1775-80
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Jacques-Louis David
Caracalla slaying his brother Geta
who clings to their Mother

1782
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Joseph-Ferdinand Lancrenon
Oreithyia abducted by Boreas
1822
drawing
Musée du Louvre