Banquet Scene Copied from the Grimani Altar, Museo Archeologico, Venice

This leaf is mounted on the same mat as the artist's "Warrior and Amazon" (Acc. No. 1978.42:1). Both are from the now dismembered album 10, which David began in 1774 when he made his first trip to Italy and is one of the artist's twelve "albums factices". He filled them mainly with rough studies of ancient art and copies of Italian paintings. There are four other drawings from album 10 in the Library's collection, two Roman landscapes (Acc. No. 1988.39:1-2), a portrait of Pauline Borghese (Acc. No. 1990.37), and an Alpine landscape (Acc. No. 1991.6).