LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Graphite

Measurements:

10.67 in. (27.10 cm.) (height) by 8.43 in. (21.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, dedicated and dated: Ingres / à son ami / monsieur / Balze. / 1828

Exhibited:

Paris, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Ingres, 1867, no. 321;; Paris, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Exposition centennale de l’art français (1789 à 1889), 1889, no. 330;; Paris, Grand Palais, Exposition centennale de l’art français, 1800 à 1889, 1900, no. 1093;; Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Ingres, 1911, no. 135;; Paris, Chambre syndicale de la Curiosité et des Beaux-Arts, Ingres, 1921, no. 101;; Paris, Galerie André Weil, Ingres, 1949, no. 59;; Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, The Lehman Collection, 1959, p. 274;; New York, Jan Krugier Gallery, The Presence of Ingres, Important works by Ingres, Degas, Picasso, Matisse and Balthus, 1988, no. 27

Literature:

C. Blanc, Ingres, Paris 1870, p. 235;; H. Delaborde, Ingres, Paris 1870, under no. 254;; G. Duplessis, Les portraits dessinés par J.A.D. Ingres, Paris 1896, under no. 2;; P. Leroi, ‘Vingt dessins de Monsieur Ingres’, L'Art, LIX, Paris, 1894-1900, p. 818;; H. Lapauze, Les Dessins de J.A.D. Ingres au Musée de Montauban, Paris 1901, p. 265;; H. Lapauze, Les Portraits dessinés de J.A.D. Ingres, Paris 1903, under no. 3;; L. Flanderin, ‘Deux Disciples d'Ingres: Paul et Raymond Balze’, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, August 1911, p. 141;; La Renaissance de l'Art Français, Paris, May 1921, p. 242, reproduced;; H. Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.A.D. Ingres, Berne 1980, vol. V, pp.116-117, under no. 311, reproduced;; 'Recent Accessions of Canadian and American Museums, April-June 1969', The Art Quarterly, XXXII, 4, Detroit, 1969, p. 440;; Linie, Licht und Schatten, Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, exhib. cat., Berlin, 1999, p. 407, reproduced;; The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, exhib. cat., Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Venice, 1999, p. 406, reproduced

Provenance:

Joseph Balze, Paris,; thence by descent to his son, Paul Balze,; thence by inheritance to his brother, Raymond Balze,; thence by descent to his daughter, Mme Alfred-Pierre-Emile Hennet de Goutel, née Anne-Marie Balze,; thence by descent to her daughter, Mme Jean Lacroix de Cariès de Sehilhes, née Marguerite Hennet de Goutel;; Dr. Otto Wertheimer, by 1956, by whom sold in 1967 to; Robert Lehman, New York;; with Colnaghi, London;; with Gallery Kornfeld, Berne;; sale, Bern, Kornfeld & Klipstein, 9-10 June 1976, lot 437