Portrait of François Buron

The Portrait of François Buron is a 1769 painting by Jacques-Louis David. It dates from his period of training and is one of his earliest known works. It shows his uncle François Buron and remained with his descendents until the death of his final descendent A Baudry in 1903. It was sold at the Regnault sale on 22 June 1905 for 6,000 francs, it then passed to Drouot at the Victor Gay sale on 23 April 1909 for 1,500 francs. It was sold anonymously on 15 December 1937 and later formed part of the collections of Robert Lebel and Madame Gas. It was sold to the Wildenstein galerie and then to its present private owner in New York City in 1985.^[1]

References

1. ↑ Antoine Schnapper (ed.) and Arlette Sérullaz, Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825 : exhibition catalogue for the retrospective at Louvre-Versailles 1989-1990, Paris, Réunion des Musées nationaux, 1989 (ISBN 2711823261), p 44

Jacques-Louis David
Works	Portrait of François Buron (1769) Minerva Fighting Mars (1771) Diana and Apollo Killing Niobe's Children (1772) The Death of Seneca (1773) Erasistratus Discovering the Cause of Antiochus' Disease (1774) The Funeral Games of Patroclus (1778) Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki (1780) Belisarius Begging for Alms (1781) Christ on the Cross (1782) Oath of the Horatii (1784) The Death of Socrates (1787) Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his wife (1788) The Loves of Paris and Helen (1788) The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (1789) The Death of Marat (1793) Self-portrait (1794) Psyche Abandoned (1795) The Intervention of the Sabine Women (1799) Portrait of Madame Récamier (1800) Napoleon at the Saint-Bernard Pass (1800-1805) Portrait of Pope Pius VII (1805) The Coronation of Napoleon (1807) Leonidas at Thermopylae (1814) Napoleon in His Study (1812) Mars Being Disarmed by Venus (1824)