# Study after Michelangelo

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## Artwork

- Artist: [DAVID, Jacques-Louis](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/david-jacques-louis-rbd07aa6641b868>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Black chalk, 180 x 110 mm

## Commentary

This drawing \(Album 7, folio 8 recto\) is one of the few figure drawings for the abandoned project of an allegory to commemorate the role played by the city of Nantes in the events leading up to the Revolution.

## Related artworks

- [Allegory of the French People Offering the Crown and Sceptre to the King](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/david-jacques-louis-rbd07aa6641b868/allegory-of-the-french-people-offering-the-crown-and-sceptre-to-the-king-rc816fb8bdc4adb>)
- [Andromache Mourning Hector](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/david-jacques-louis-rbd07aa6641b868/andromache-mourning-hector-re95a78135db9a4>)
- [Anne-Marie-Louise Thélusson, Comtesse de Sorcy](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/david-jacques-louis-rbd07aa6641b868/anne-marie-louise-thlusson-comtesse-de-sorcy-r3aebb35592e9ea>)
- [Antiochus and Stratonica](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/david-jacques-louis-rbd07aa6641b868/antiochus-and-stratonica-red4c999b33e109>)
- [Belisarius Receiving Alms](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/david-jacques-louis-rbd07aa6641b868/belisarius-receiving-alms-r427703bf0a794f>)
- [Bonaparte, Calm on a Fiery Steed, Crossing the Alps \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/david-jacques-louis-rbd07aa6641b868/bonaparte-calm-on-a-fiery-steed-crossing-the-alps-detail-rdd42ab7be690fd>)
- [Bonaparte, Calm on a Fiery Steed, Crossing the Alps](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/david-jacques-louis-rbd07aa6641b868/bonaparte-calm-on-a-fiery-steed-crossing-the-alps-r1ccae70b2c0e89>)
- [Brutus](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/david-jacques-louis-rbd07aa6641b868/brutus-re834a8bc118b52>)
- [Christ on the Cross](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/david-jacques-louis-rbd07aa6641b868/christ-on-the-cross-r856c9c7e64f35d>)
- [Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I and Coronation of the Empress Josephine](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/david-jacques-louis-rbd07aa6641b868/consecration-of-the-emperor-napoleon-i-and-coronation-of-the-empress-josephine-r812a02aa2b6a5b>)
- [Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/david-jacques-louis-rbd07aa6641b868/consecration-of-the-emperor-napoleon-i-detail-r6f0af8f6299a86>)
- [Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/david-jacques-louis-rbd07aa6641b868/consecration-of-the-emperor-napoleon-i-detail-r9d9c5a3b0febb0>)

## Attribution

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