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Studies for foot in "Jesus Giving the Keys to Saint Peter",
ca. 1817
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1780–1867; born Montauban, France; died Paris; active Rome, Florence, and Paris
y1982-18
As part of Ingres’s laborious working process, he made a series of small studies of details in preparation for painting a large canvas. This is such a study for the foot of Jesus in the large altarpiece he painted in Rome for the Church of Santa Trinità dei Monti (now in the Musée Ingres, Montauban). Ingres also made studies of Jesus’s head and hand as well as details of the apostles. These studies were meant as working aids, preliminary explorations in color of forms that had already been worked up in drawings. They were not intended for sale, and most of them, like this one, remained in the artist’s studio until his death.
Information
Title
Studies for foot in "Jesus Giving the Keys to Saint Peter"
Dates
ca. 1817
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
19.5 x 25.2 cm (7 11/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
frame: 28.9 × 34.4 × 3.8 cm (11 3/8 × 13 9/16 × 1 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, by exchange
Object Number
y1982-18
Signatures
Signed in ink, below outlined foot: Ingres
Culture
Subject
The artist (until 1866; sold to Haro, October 13, 1866); Etienne François Haro (1866–67; Ingres studio sale, Paillet, Paris, May 6–7, 1867, lot 10, ?bought in); Etienne François and Henri Haro, Paris (until 1892; sale, Galerie Sedelmeyer, May 30–31, 1892, lot 119); Jules Claretie (until 1914; sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, May 8, 1914, lot 31, to Brunner); anonymous sale, Sotheby’s New York, May 28, 1981, lot 27; Richard Feigen, New York (in 1982; sold to, and exchanged with, Princeton University Art Museum).
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- Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. 1981. Important 19th century European paintings: part 1, sale code po. 25 November 1981, London., no. 27
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- Eighty years of French painting: from Louis XVI to the Second Republic: autumn 1991, (New York: Stair Sainty Matthiesen; London: Matthiesen Fine Art, 1991).
- Neo-classicism and romanticism in French painting, 1774-1826, (New York: Richard L. Feigen & Co., 1994)., no. 39
- Georges Vigne, Invitation, no.2: Les Cles du ciel ou de la gloire, (Montauban: Musée Ingres, 1999)., p. 7 (illus.); p. 13
- Susan L. Siegfried, "Faith in materials: Christ giving the keys to Saint Peter by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres", Art history 28, no. 5 (Nov. 2005): p. 657-688, 823.
- Nineteenth century European & Orientalist art, (London: Christie's, 2015).
