Category:Portrait of Madame de Verninac by David (Louvre RF 1942-16)

**Portrait of Madame de Verninac**
	painting by Jacques-Louis David
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Instance of	painting;
Main subject	Henriette de Verninac;
Depicts	Henriette de Verninac, chair, dress, wall, scarf, Incroyables and Merveilleuses, black hair, 1795–1820 clothing, woman, part, waist-length hair, chignon and décolletage
Made from material	oil paint; canvas (painting support); stretcher;
Genre	portrait;
Location	Room 714, 1st arrondissement of Paris, Paris Centre, Paris, Grand Paris
Creator	Jacques-Louis David;
Owned by	Henriette de Verninac (1799–1827); Charles de Verninac (1827–); Eugène Delacroix (1831–1863); Carlos de Beistegui (–1942); French State (1942–);
Collection	Department of Paintings of the Louvre;
Inventory number	RF 1942-16 (Department of Paintings of the Louvre); RF 1942 16 (Department of Paintings of the Louvre);
Inception	1799;
Width	112 ±1 cm;
Height	145.5 ±0.1 cm;
Authority file
	Q3399485; Joconde work ID: 000PE000830; Louvre Museum ARK ID: 010064311
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Portrait of Madame de Verninac by David (Louvre RF 1942-16)

Jacques-Louis David: Portrait of Madame de Verninac

Artist



Description	French painter, politician and architectural draftsperson
Date of birth/death	30 August 1748	29 December 1825
Location of birth/death	Paris	City of Brussels
Work period	neoclassicism era QS:P2348,Q14378
Work location	Paris, Rome, City of Brussels
Authority file	: Q83155 VIAF: 66575297 ISNI: 0000000121374173 ULAN: 500115221 LCCN: n50035639 NLA: 35033606 MusicBrainz: 2eb0212f-d9db-4a68-827e-dcf3fd74e97b WGA: d/david_j Open Library: OL127935A DBNL: davi049 GND: 118523945 SELIBR: 183464 SUDOC: 034492771 BNF: 125243831 BPN: 85768976 NDL: 00437288 BIBSYS: 90391698 NKC: ola2002113722 Léonore: [ LH//673/3] SBN: CFIV056143 BNE: XX957053 CiNii: DA02198328 NLP: a0000001190803 KulturNav: d4fa3e04-e6b2-4ea0-be1d-d67d48ef79e1 RKD: 20163 J9U: 987007312026605171 Koninklijke: 069387591 NLK: KAC201719241 WorldCat

Title

French:

Portrait de madame de Verninac

Portrait of Madame de Verninac

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Description

English: Madame Raymond de Verninac (Portrait of Madame de Verninac), born Henriette Delacroix, elder sister of Eugène Delacroix. Signature: “David fecit anno Septimo” (David did this in the year seven – i.e. of the French revolutionary calendar).

Français : Madame Raymond de Verninac, née Henriette Delacroix, soeur ainée d'Eugène Delacroix, qui avait épousé en 1798 Raymond de Verninac de Saint-Maur, ambassadeur, puis préfet du Rhône de 1800 à 1801.

Depicted people

Henriette de Verninac

Date

1799

Medium

oil and stretcher on canvas

Dimensions

height: 145.5 cm (57.2 in)

; width: 112 cm (44 in)

Collection

Louvre Museum (Inventory)

	Native name	Louvre Museum
	Location	1st arrondissement of Paris , France
	Coordinates	48° 51′ 40″ N, 2° 20′ 09″ E
	Established	10 August 1793
	Website	www.louvre.fr
	Authority file	: Q19675 VIAF: 257711507 ISNI: 000000012260177X ULAN: 500125189 LCCN: n80020283 NLA: 35912436 WorldCat

Current location

Donations Carlos de Beistegui, princesse Louis de Croÿ, Hélène et Victor Lyon, room A: Donation Carlos de Beistegui. Sully, 2^nd floor.
This work is part of the collections of the Louvre (Department of Paintings).

Accession number

RF 1942-16

Object history

Provenance:

Collection Louis Malvy (1875-1949);
1924, vente "d'un vieux portrait de famille (Mme de Verninac, par David)" (correspondance du 22/II/1924 de L. Malvy en vente chez Ader Nordmann le 14/VI/2012);
Collection Carlos de Beistegui (attesté en 1929 d'après le lot n°1517 de la vente du château de Groussay en 1999: un tableau par S** Lecconnier, Intérieur de la maison de Carlos de Beistegui daté de 1929-1930 où l'on peut clairement identifier le portrait par David);
1942, Donation sous réserve d'usufruit de Carlos de Beistegui;
1953, entrée au Louvre.

1942: bequeathed by Carlos de Beistegui

Exhibition history

Henriette de Verninac. De David à Delacroix, Musée National Eugène Delacroix, 17/11/2006 - 19/02/2007

Inscriptions

Signature bottom left:

David F.bat Anno Septimo R. G.

[made by David, the seventh year of the Republican calendar]

Notes

English: An example of the strongly Classical-influenced continental European high fashion of the late 1790's and first years of the 1800's.

Français : Un exemple de la haute couture continental européen néo-classique de la fin des années 1790 et du début des années 1800.

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