Henri-Joseph de Forestier
The Wrath of Saul
c. 1817
Physical Qualities
Pen and brush and brown ink, heightened with white opaque watercolor, over graphite on blue paper, Sheet: 161 × 243 mm. (6 5/16 × 9 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Dr. and Mrs. William W. Magruder Fund
Object Number
1984.21
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1984; Galerie Cailleux, Geneva, 1982; Vente Collection A[ndré] F[inot] et divers amateurs, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Dec. 6, 1982, lot 118; André Finot, Paris (collector's mark not in Lugt) 'AF' in circle, identified by Laurence Lhinares).
Jay McKean Fisher, William R. Johnston and Cheryl K. Snay, 'The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas,' organized by The Walters Art Museum and The Baltimore Museum of Art, circulated to The Walters Art Museum June 19, 2005 - September 11, 2005, The Birmingham Museum of Art February 9, 2006 - May 4, 2006, Tacoma Art Museum June 9, 2006 - September 7, 2006.
Richard Campbell and Victor Carlson, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 'Visions of Antiquity: Neoclassical Figure Drawings', July 22-Sept. 19, 1993, p. 258-59, no. 76, ill. p. 259; circulated to Philadelphia Museum of Art, Oct. 30, 1993-Jan. 2, 1994; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Feb. 6-April 3, 1994.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Master Drawings by French Artists in the Museum's Collection," 9 May - 23 July, 1989.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Baltimore Collects: French and Italian Drawings, 1715-1814', Oct. 16-Dec. 2, 1984.
Richard Campbell and Victor Carlson, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 'Visions of Antiquity: Neoclassical Figure Drawings', July 22-Sept. 19, 1993, p. 258-59, no. 76, ill. p. 259; circulated to Philadelphia Museum of Art, Oct. 30, 1993-Jan. 2, 1994; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Feb. 6-April 3, 1994.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Master Drawings by French Artists in the Museum's Collection," 9 May - 23 July, 1989.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Baltimore Collects: French and Italian Drawings, 1715-1814', Oct. 16-Dec. 2, 1984.
Baltimore Museum of Art Members Calendar (Sept.-Oct. 1984), ill. p. 4.
Fisher, Jay McKean, et al. The Essence of Line: French drawings from Ingres to Degas. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005, p. 226-29, ill.
Inscribed: RECTO: BLC, ink, 'deforestier' (most likely not the artist's handwriting); LL, stamp, 'A' in circle [Lugt 56]; BRC, stamp, circle [damage to both corners has been repaired, but has partly obscured the inscriptions that appear there].
