JEAN AUGUSTE DOMINIQUE INGRES* (French, 1780-1867)

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JEAN AUGUSTE DOMINIQUE INGRES* (French, 1780-1867)

Study for Moliere in the Apotheosis of Homer

signed Ingres lower right--pencil and black chalk heightened with white chalk on tan laid paper
12 x 9 7/8in. (30.5 x 25cm.) unframed

Provenance

Anon. sale, Paris, October 13, 1866, to Haro
Etienne-Frençois Haro, Paris (L.1241)
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, February 27, 1982, lot 9

Literature

H. Lapauze, Ingres, sa vie et son oeuvre, 1911, p. 553
B. d'Agen, Ingres dessinateur des antiques, 1926, p. XII (text after Lapauze)

Exhibited

Paris, Palais de l'Ecole Imperial des Beaux-Arts, Catalogue de l'Exposition Ingres, 1867, no. 167, p. 32 (as Etude pour les draperies de Moliere, loaned by M. Haro)

Lot Essay

Three other studies for the figure of Moliere in the Apotheosis of Homer are known. One, a black chalk study for the drapery is in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (see Agnes Mongan and Hans Naef, Ingres Centenial Exhibition, 1867-1967, Drawings, Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American Collections, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., February 12-April 9, 1967, no. 59, ill.). The other two studies for the figures are in the Musée Ingres, Montauban. Both of these drawings are squared for transfer, one shows the figure nude, the other draped.

Executed circa 1827.