Sketchbook
1809–10
Medium
Graphite, black chalk, black crayon, and pen and brown ink drawings on wove paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 24.2 × 18.2 cm (9 9/16 × 7 3/16 in.); Book, closed: 25.3 × 20.8 × 2.2 cm (10 × 8 1/4 × 7/8 in.); Book, open: 25.3 × 41.5 cm (10 × 16 3/8 in.)
Classification
sketchbook
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
86483
About the Artist
Jacques Louis David · 1748–1825
Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), born in Paris on August 30 to a prosperous family, faced early tragedy when his father was killed in a duel around age nine. Raised by his mother's two architect uncles after his mother departed, David overcame family resistance to architecture and a facial tumor that hindered his speech and studies at the Collège des Quatre-Nations. He began training under the Roc...