Important European Terracotta & Bronze Sculpture from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections

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Lot 559
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
  • a relief with four putti riding sea shells, a dolphin and trident at the center
  • Red chalk

Provenance

Sale, New York, Christie's, 12 January 1995, lot 201

Catalogue Note

The present drawing was copied by Ingres after one of the reliefs on the upper part of the Fontaine des Innocents, a monumental public fountain made in Paris in 1547-50 by the sculptor Jean Goujon.  Ingres made three further copies of the reliefs, now in the Louvre: two are in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge1 and another was with Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox.2  All three sheets in black chalk were in the collection of the painter Alphonse Legros, who was given them by the artist himself.

1. See Cents dessins franรงais du Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, exhib. cat., Paris, Galerie Heim, 1976, nos. 47-8, reproduced.
2. Nineteenth Century French Drawings, exhib. cat., Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, London, 1994, no. 7, reproduced