Lot 104: CIRCLE OF JEAN-AUGUSTE-DOMINIQUE INGRES

PORTRAIT OF THE SCULPTOR CHARLES DUPATY (1771-1825)

9 by 6 in; 230 by 151 mm

Black lead;bears old inscription and attribution in brown ink on 19th Century label on reverse of frame: Dessiné à Rome 1815 par Ingres / Mr.. Chs.. Dupaty

New York, Galerie Jacques Seligman, One Hundred Years of French Art, 1800-1900, 1934, no. 10;
London, The Leicester Galleries, Water Colours and Drawings by Modern French Masters, 1934, no. 1;
New York, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Ingres in American Collections, 1961, no. 19, reproduced (always as Ingres);
Minneapolis Art Institute (their loan label on reverse of frame)

Hans Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres, 5 vols., Bern 1977, vol. I, pp. 212-3, reproduced fig. 3 (as formerly attributed to Ingres)

Sale, Paris, Drouot, 24 April 1907, lot 21 (as Ingres);
Comtesse de Béarn;
Jacques-Léon Stern,
sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, 3-4 November 1950, lot 9 (as Ingres);
David Daniels (according to Minneapolis Art Institute label)

In 1810, Ingres made a drawn profile portrait of Dupaty, whom he met in Rome. (1) The present drawing of the sculptor seated in a chair was always considered an autograph work by Ingres until demoted by Naef (loc. cit.), who also dismissed as impossible the date of 1815, inscribed on the mount. He does not, however, consider it a copy of a lost drawing by Ingres, but rather an independent work by another artist, stating that the costume indicates a date for the drawing of around 1800, a moment from which there is no stylistically comparable drawing known by Ingres.

1. Naef, op. cit., cat. 59