Lot 131: Attributed to Luigi Calamatta (Civitavecchia 1802-1869 Milan)

Attributed to Luigi Calamatta (Civitavecchia 1802-1869 Milan)
Portrait of Luigi Calamatta, after Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
inscribed 'Ingres à Son ami Calamatta 1828 Paris'
pencil, on paper wrapped around its original cardboard support
12½ x 9½ in. (32 x 24.2 cm.)

Paris, Galerie Jacques Seligman, Portraits par Ingres et ses élèves, 1934, no. 28.

L. Hourticq, Ingres, l'oeuvre du maître, Paris, 1928, pl. 68.
H. Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres, Bern, 1977-80, II, p. 572, fig. 2,; and V, p. 120, under no. 313.
H. Naef, in exhib. cat., Portraits by Ingres. Image of an epoch, London, The National Gallery, and other locations, 1999-2000, p. 313, under no. 105.
D. Ternois, Lettres d'Ingres à Marcotte d'Argenteuil. Dictionnaire, Nogent-le-Roi, 2001, p. 62 n. 6.

Charles Marcotte, and by descent to the present owner.

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A copy, slightly larger, after Ingres' portrait drawing of his friend and engraver Luigi Calamatta (1801-1869) belonging to the Musée Carnavalet, Paris, now on deposit at the Musée de la Vie Romantique, Paris.
The drawing is still on its original tablet (see previous lot).