OGER-BLANCHET
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DAVID, Jacques-Louis - Le Tableau des Sabines, exposé publiq…
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577
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DAVID, Jacques-Louis - Le Tableau des Sabines, exposé publiq…
See original version (French)
Estimate €150
Voluntary lot
Description
DAVID, Jacques-Louis - Le Tableau des Sabines, exposé publiquement au Palais national des sciences et des arts, salle de la ci-devant académie d'architecture. Paris, P. Didot l'aîné, an VIII (1800). 16 pp. in-8, russet, half-perc. bradel.
Not in Monglond. David had been a member of the Institut national des sciences et des arts since its creation (25 October 1795). The painting completed in 1799 was exhibited in a room in the Louvre where David had workshops. The brochure is divided into two parts, the first of which contains an impassioned plea for public exhibitions. How sweet it would be for me, how happy I would consider myself, if, by giving the example of a public exhibition, I could bring about its use! If this use could offer talents a means of escaping from poverty, and if, as a result of this first advantage, I could contribute to restoring the arts to their true purpose, which is to serve morality and elevate souls, by passing on to those of the spectators the generous feelings evoked by the artists' productions!
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