LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

47.01 in. (119.40 cm.) (height) by 33.98 in. (86.30 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Paris, Palais de l'École Impériale des Beaux-Arts, Catalogue des tableaux, études peints, dessins et croquis de J.-A.-D. Ingres, 1867, no. 1; Paris, Musée du Louvre, Ingres (1780-1867), February 24-May 15, 2006, no 138

Literature:

Henri Delaborde, Ingres, sa vie, ses traveaux, sa doctrine, d'apr ès les notes manuscrites et les lettres du ma ître, Paris, 1870, p. 181, no. 10; Charles Gounod, Mémoirs d'un artiste, Paris, 1896, pp. 110-2; Henry Lapauze, Les Dessins de J.A.D. Ingres du musée de Montauban, Paris, 1901 text volume, p. 148 and note 1; no. 149 (as 1827); Jules Momméja, Ingres: biographie critique, Paris, n.d. (1903), p. 101; Jules Momméja, Collection Ingres au musée de Montauban, Paris, 1905, p. 80; Louis Flandrin, "Deux disciples d'Ingres: Paul et Raymond Balze," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, VI, no. 650, August, 1911, p. 154; Georges Wildenstein, Ingres, New York, 1954, p. 211, no. 229, illustrated fig. 144; Georges Wildenstein, Ingres (2nd, revised edition), London, 1956, p. 190, no. 133, illustrated p. 190, fig. 79; Hans Naef, "Portrait Drawings by Ingres in the Art Institute of Chicago," Museum Studies (Art Institute of Chicago), no. 1, 1966, p. 71; Ingres, exh. cat., Petit Palais, Paris, 1967-1968. p. 320, cited under no. 249; Emilio Radius and Ettore Camesasca, L'Opera completa di Ingres, Milan, 1968, pp. 107-8, no. 129a. illustrated p. 106; Daniel Ternois and Ettore Camesasca, Tout l'oeuvre peint d'Ingres, Paris, 1971, p. 108, no. 130a, illustrated p. 106; Daniel Ternois, Ingres (French ed.), Milan, 1980, p. 183, no. 242, illustrated; Patricia Condon, In pursuit of Perfection: The Art of J.-A.-D. Ingres, exh. cat, The J.B. Speed Art Museum, and traveling, Louisville, Kentucky, 1983-1984, p. 136, 245; Edgar Munhall, Ingres and the Comtesse d'Haussonville, exh. cat., The Frick Collection, New York, 1985-1986, p. 56; W.M. Brady & Co., Inc., Old Master Drawings, New York, 1990, n.p., cited under no. 31; Annalisa Zanni, Ingres: catalogo completo dei dipinti, Florence, 1990, p. 149; Georges Vigne, assisted by Éric Moinet Montauban, Papiers d'Ingres: Vierges folles et vierges sages, exh. cat., Musée Ingres and Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1992-1993, p. 2, 4, cited under no. 11; 20, note 3; Georges Vigne, Dessins d'Ingres: catalogue raisonné des dessins du musée de Montauban, Paris, 1995, p. 58-9, illustrated p. 59 (for studies of the Christ Child); Georges Vigne, Ingres, Paris, 1995, p. 228, 230, 335

Provenance:

Raymond-Joseph-Antoine Balze (a gift from the artist); Baron Joseph Raphaël Vitta, Lyon and Paris (and sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Catalogue des tableaux modernes, aquarelles et dessins.. provenant de la Collection Baron Joseph Rapha ël Vitta, June 27-28, 1924, lot 56); M. Gradt (acquired at the above sale); Joseph Hotermans, Paris (until 1968); Private Collection