Portrait of the architect François-Désiré Girard de Bury

Details

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Montauban 1780-1867 Paris)
Portrait of the architect François-Désiré Girard de Bury
pencil
5¼ x 3 1/8 in. (13.3 x 7.9 cm.)
1808

Provenance

Achille Leclère.
with Claude Darton, Avignon.
with Lucien Goldschmidt, New York.
Mrs. Jacob M. Kaplan, New York.
with Eugene V. Thaw, where acquired by Rosalynd C. Pflaum.

Literature

L. Goldschmidt, Architecture and the Achille Leclere - Ingres sketchbook, cat. no. 32, New York, 1964, no. 124.
D. Ternois, 'L'Ingrisme dans le monde', in Bulletin de Musée Ingres, Montauban, September 1964, p. 21.
H. Naef, 'L'Ingrisme dans le monde', in Bulletin de Musée Ingres, Montauban, July 1965, p. 21.
H. Naef, 'Eighteen Portrait Drawings by Ingres', in Master Drawings, IV, no. 3, 1966, pp. 258, 280, no. 3, pl. 2.
A. Mongan, 'Ingres as a Great Portrait Draughtsman', Colloque Ingres (1967), Montauban, 1969, pp. 141, 148, fig. 5.
H. Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres, Bern, 1977, I, pp. 174-177, chap. 16; IV, pp. 92-3, no. 49, ill.
A. Mongan, David to Corot. French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge (Mass.) and London, 1996, p. 290.

Exhibited

Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Ingres Centennial Exhibition, 12 February-9 April 1967, no. 8.
Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Drawings & Watercolors from Minnesota private collections, 1971, no. 14.

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Lot Essay

This drawing was until 1965 part of an album formed by the architect Achille Leclère (1785-1853) containing drawings by his contemporaries. The album is now in the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass. (A. Mongan, op. cit., pp. 290-91, appendix A). The page on which it was in the album bore the inscription 'Ingres f. Rome 1808/ portrait de Bury architecte'. A student of Percier and Fontaine Girard de Bury finished second at the 1802 Prix de Rome but was nonetheless sent in 1806 to the Académie de France as pensionnaire. It was there that he met Ingres who also left for Rome in 1806 and Leclère who won the Prix de Rome of architecture in 1808.

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