File:Jacques-Louis David 018.jpg

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Artist



Description	French painter
Date of birth/death	30 August 1748	29 December 1825
Location of birth/death	Paris	Brussels
Work period	Neoclassicism
Work location	Paris, Rome, Brussels
Authority control	WorldCat

Title

Portrait du pape Pie VII (Portrait of Pope Pius VII)

Date

1805

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

86 × 71 cm (33.9 × 28 in)

Current location

( Inventory) Louvre Museum

	Native name	Musée du Louvre
	Location	Paris
	Coordinates	48° 51′ 37.42″ N, 2° 20′ 15.36″ E
	Established	1793
	Website	www.louvre.fr
	Authority control	WorldCat

Denon Wing, 1st floor, room 75

Accession number

INV. 3701

Object history

1805: commissioned by Napoleon I, Paris
after 1805: transferred to Galerie du Sénat, Paris
before 1824: transferred to Musée de Louvre, Paris, from Galerie du Sénat, Paris
1824: transferred to Château du Luxembourg, Paris, from Musée de Louvre, Paris

1827: transferred to Musée de Louvre, Paris, from Château du Luxembourg, Paris

Inscriptions

Signature and date recto: LUD. DAVID PARISIIS 1805 [Louis David, Paris 1805]

Name of sitter recto bottom left: Pio VII Bonarium Artium Patron [Pius VII, Patron of the Fine Arts]

Notes

The artist made three copies of this work, two of which are now at:
Musée de Versailles
Musée de Fontainebleau

The third copy is considered lost.

References

Musée du Louvre, Atlas database: entry 22501

Source/Photographer

The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN

3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

Permission
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The work of art depicted in this image and the reproduction thereof are in the public domain worldwide. The reproduction is part of a collection of reproductions compiled by The Yorck Project. The compilation copyright is held by Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH and licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.

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