Serment du Jeu de Paume (The Tennis Court Oath)

Jean Pierre Marie Jazet

1788 – Paris – 1871

Aquatint after Jacques Louis David. Size of plate: 63 x 85. Size of sheet: 67.5 x 88.6 cm. Nagler 93. I.F.F. 106.

Very fine and even impression of this large print with small margins. In good condition (no tears).

One of the most famous images of the art of the French Revolution, probably executed after the finished preparatory drawing by David, now in the Musée du Louvre, Cabinet des Dessins. The painting is in the Musée National de Château, Versailles. For an interesting discussion on this image see: David on the Tennis Court Oath, in: Roberts, Warren, Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Louis Prieur, revolutionary artists: the public, the populace, and images of the French Revolution, Albany, NY : State University of New York, 1999. p. 227 ff.

Jazet was a student of Philibert-Louis Debucourt (1755 - 1832) and worked in his workshop. Debucourt moved later into Jazet’s home, where Deboucourt died.

Bought by a museum, Northern America.