Live Auction 17994Old Master & British Drawings Including Works from the Collection of Jean Bonna
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Montauban 1780-1867 Paris)
Lot 100 From a European Private Collection

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Montauban 1780-1867 Paris)

Saint Jerome, after Raphael

Closed28 January 2020

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Montauban 1780-1867 Paris)
Saint Jerome, after Raphael
Signed in pen and ink 'Ingres' (lower left) and inscribed by modern hand 'uff' (bottom)
red chalk, watermark 'fleur de lis in a double circle'
12 7/8 x 10 7/8 in/ (32.5 x 27.8 cm)

with Galerie Paul Prouté, Paris (Dessin originaux anciens et modernes [...], March 1971, no. 63, ill.), where acquired in 1971.

Specialist note

Ingres’ admiration for the ‘divine Raphael’ is well-known, and puts in context this refined drawing, probably made during his first stay in the Eternal City as ‘pensionnaire’ of the Académie de France between 1806 and 1820. It copies Raphael’s celebrated fresco known as the Disputà (Disputation of the Holy Sacrament) in the Vatican Stanze. The drawing stands out among his copies after old masters, which are generally executed in graphite, his favorite medium.