The DESSINART COLLECTION
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Description
Title
Portrait of The Sculptor Charles Dupaty (1771 - 1825)
Attribution
Jean-Auguste-Dominique INGRES
Medium
black lead on cream paper
Dimensions
Sheet: L.23 cm. W.15 cm.
Inscriptions
unsigned， bears old inscription and attribution in brown ink on 19th Century label on reverse of frame Inscribed “Dessiné à Rome 1815 par Ingres/Mr..Chs..Dupaty” (19th Century label on reverse of frame)
Documentation
Provenance
Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 24 April 1907, lot 21;Comtesse de Béarn;Jacques-Léon Stern;sale, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 3–4 November 1950, lot 9;David Daniels, according to a label from the Minneapolis Institute of Art;Sotheby’s, New York, Old Master Drawings, 27 January 2010, sale N08609, lot 104;Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer, Basel, Switzerland, 22 March 2023.
Exhibition
New York, Galerie Jacques Seligmann, *One Hundred Years of French Art, 1800–1900*, 1934, no. 10; London, The Leicester Galleries, *Water Colours and Drawings by Modern French Masters*, 1934, no. 1; New York, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, *Ingres in American Collections*, 1961, no. 19, reproduced, as Ingres; Minneapolis Institute of Art, according to a loan label on the reverse of the frame.
Literature
Hans Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres, 5 vols., Bern 1977, vol. I, pp. 212-3, reproduced fig. 3 (as formerly attributed to Ingres).
Digital Archives
Technical Imaging
Visible Light
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Ultraviolet
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Infrared
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