Lot 403
  • 403

JEAN-BAPTISTE CARPEAUX | Monsieur Imbert

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Manner of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
  • Monsieur Imbert 
  • inscribed Souvenir d'amitié/ à M. Imbert, signed JBte Carpeaux, and dated 1873 (lower right) 
  • oil on canvas 
  • 15 7/8 by 12 7/8 in.
  • 40.3 by 32.7 cm

Provenance

Roger Doublier, Monaco, (by 1944) 
Sale: Sotheby's, Monaco, December 8, 1984, lot 407, illustrated (as Portrait de M. Jaubert
Jean-François et Philippe Heim, Paris (by 1987) 
Wheelock Whitney & Company, New York 
Acquired from the above in 1988

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Heim, Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins et Sculptures du XIXSiècle, 1986, no. 9 (as Portrait de Monsieur Jaubert) 

Literature

Louise Clément-Carpeaux, La Vérité sur l'Oeuvre et la Vie de J.-B. Carpeaux, Paris, 1935, vol. II, pp. 44, 332 
Revue du Louvre
, 1987, no. 1 (as Portrait de M. Jaubert) 
Revue du Louvre, 1987, no. 5-6, p. 426 (as Portrait de M. Jaubert) 
Patrick Ramade, ed., Carpeaux peintre, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux Arts de Valenciennes; Musée du Luxembourg, Paris; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, October 8, 1999 - August 27, 2000, p. 246, no. 278, illustrated 

Condition

Examined in the frame. Lined. The work presents well. There is faint craquelure on the sitter's forehead and under his right proper right eye and minor frame abrasion along the lower left edge. Under UV: the surface is covered by a thick green fluorescing varnish. There are a few older dashed retouches in the area to the right of the man's chin.
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Catalogue Note

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was a leading French sculptor who rose to fame during the Second Empire. After winning the coveted Prix de Rome in 1854 and studying from masters such as Michelangelo and Donatello, Carpeaux adopted a naturalistic style which would later inspire Auguste Rodin. Carpeaux was also a prolific portrait painter, his evident painterly freedom evoking the psychological realism and integrity of his sitter. The present work has recently been identified as a portrait of Monsieur Imbert, a clerk to Carpeaux’s lawyer, to whom the painting is dedicated as a souvenir of his friendship with the artist.