Old Master Drawings
Old Master Drawings
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Christ on the Mountain
Auction Closed
January 27, 05:29 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris
Christ on the Mountain
Pen and brown ink and gray wash over pencil, within brown ink framing lines, the sheet faintly squared for transfer in pencil;
signed in pencil, lower right: Ingres -
further signed and dated in brown ink, to the lower centre of the old backing: Ingres inv et Del.vit: 1860
and dedicated in brown ink, to the lower right of the old backing: Souvenir d'amitié, de haute estime / et de reconnaissance à son célèbre ami / Monsieur Paul Lacroix / J. Ingres
357 by 344 mm; 14 by 13 1/2 in
Gifted by the artist to Paul Lacroix (1806-1884), Paris;
Étienne Moreau-Nélaton (1859-1927), Paris,
thence by descent, until 2010,
sale, Paris, Piasa, 17 December 2010, lot 77
Étienne Moreau-Nélaton (1859-1927), Paris,
thence by descent, until 2010,
sale, Paris, Piasa, 17 December 2010, lot 77
G. Vigne, Dessins d'Ingres, Catalogue raisonné des dessins du musée de Montauban, Paris 1995, p. 448, reproduced