Lot 454
  • 454

WILLIAM ORPEN1878 - 1931, ENGLISH SCHOOL | Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Cicéron Lesueur, after Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 EUR
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Description

  • Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Cicéron Lesueur, after Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
  • 29 x 20,2 cm ; 11 3/8 by 8 in.
pencil on paper ; signed and dated lower left William Orpen 1904 ; inscribed lower right Ingres / Rome 1820

Provenance

Artist's Studio at the time of his death;
Knoedler & Co., London, (by 1932) ;
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 8th March 1995, Lot 27, as "Portrait after Ingres" ;
Sherpherd Gallery, New York

Exhibited

Fall exhibition, Shepherd Gallery, New York, n°29, illustrated

Literature

Hans Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres, 1980, vol. IV. n°247 (for an illustration of the original drawing by Ingres)