Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Montauban 1780-1867 Paris)
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Montauban 1780-1867 Paris)

Portrait of Liborio Bartolini

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Montauban 1780-1867 Paris)
Portrait of Liborio Bartolini
pencil, watermark JW WHATMAN
8¼ x 6 1/8 in. (21 x 15.4 cm.)
Provenance
Lorenzo Bartolini, Florence, the son of the sitter, and by descent to
Marchese Guidobaldo Pianetta della Stufa, until 1956.
Paul Kantor, California, from whom acquired in July 1963 by
Norton Simon, Los Angeles; Christie's, London, 23 November 1971, lot 146.
Literature
M. Tinti, Lorenzo Bartolini, Rome, 1936, I, pp. 81-82 (where incorrectly dated 1820-1824), fig. 17.
H. Naef, 'Ingres als Portraitist in Elternhause Bartolinis', Paragone, VII:53 (November 1956), pp. 31-8, fig. 2.
H. Naef, 'L'Ingrisme dans le monde', Bulletin du Musée Ingres, 30 (December 1971), p. 25.
M. Delpierre, 'Ingres et la mode de son temps', in Actes du Colloque International: Ingres et le néo-classicisme (Bulletin spécial des Amis du Musée Ingres), October 1975, pp. 154-56, note 36, fig. 14.
P. Hattis, Four Centuries of French Drawings in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, 1977, p. 267, under no. 240.
H. Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres, Bern, 1977, I, pp. 145, 148, 150, pl. 4; IV, pp. 70-71, no. 37.
D. Ternois, Ingres, Milan, 1980, p. 26.
J. Foucart, 'L'Ingrisme en France et dans le monde en 1981 et 1982', Bulletin du Musée Ingres, nos. 49-50 (December 1982), p. 96.
R.F. Johnson and J.R. Goldyne (eds.), Master Drawings from the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, exhib. cat., San Francisco, Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1985, pp. 138, 225, under no. 61, note 2.
U. Fleckner, Abbild und Abstraktion: Die Kunst des Porträts im Werk von Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Mainz, 1995, pp. 113-4, note 34, fig. 36.
P. Rylands (ed.), The Timeless Eye: Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, exhib. cat., Berlin, Staatliche Museen, and elsewhere, 1999-2002, p. 170, under no. 78.
S. Campbell, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, New Haven and London, 2010, p. 263, under no. 149.
Exhibited
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Rome vue par Ingres, 1958, no. B1-a.
Berkeley, University of California Art Museum, Master Drawings from California Collections, 1968, no. 10.
New York, Wildenstein, Consulat, Empire, Restauration: Art in Early XIX Century France, April-May 1982, p. 112, unnumbered.
New York, Jan Krugier Gallery, The Presence of Ingres: Important Works by Ingres, Chassériau, Degas, Picasso, Matisse and Balthus, 1988, no. 17.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Executed between 2 and 9 October 1806, when Ingres stayed with the Bartolini family in Florence on his way to Rome. He had come to know the family through his friendship with the sitter's son Lorenzo (1777-1850), a fellow-student of Ingres in David's studio in Paris who later became a notable Neoclassical sculptor. In total Ingres executed four portraits of the family, including the present work: the portrait of Bartolini's wife, Maria Maddalena Magli, is now in the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco (Naef, op. cit., no. 38) and Ingres also drew portraits of two of their sons (Naef, op. cit., nos. 39-40).

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