Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Madame J.-A.-D. Ingres,
née Madeleine Chapelle, ca. 1814
Oil on canvas, 70 x 57 cm
Wildenstein no. 107
Provenance
Mme Pierre-Antoine Dubreuil, née Jeanne-Sophie Chapelle, Guéret (1) ▪ Monsieur Mingasson (2) ▪
Henry Lapauze, Paris (1910 until [d.] 1925) (3) ▪ The estate of Henry Lapauze (4) ▪ Paul Rosenberg,
New York (1929–1952) (5) ▪ Emil Bührle, Zurich (2 December 1952 until [d.] 28 November 1956) (6)
▪ Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, no. 136 (1960).
(1) The sitter's sister, Wildenstein no. 107.
(2) A descendant of the above, Wildenstein no. 107.
(3) Acquired from the above, Henry Lapauze, Ingres, Sa vie & son œuve (1780–1867), D'après des documents
inédits, Paris 1911, p. 168, n. 1.
(4) Catalogue des tableaux et dessins par J.-A.-D. Ingres, composant la collection de Monsieur Henry Lapauze,
(sale cat.) Hôtel Drouot, Paris (21 June 1929), no. 53.
(5) Acquired at the above sale, Archive Paul Rosenberg Gallery, New York, Inventory Notebook, September 1952,
pp. 2–3, indicating as a purchase price the equivalent of $ 18.500; AStEGB, Letter from Paul Rosenberg, New
York, to Emil Bührle, 22 September 1952, accompanying individual invoices for 10 pictures which Bührle has
acquired from him, including Ingres, Mme Ingres.
(6) Acquired from the above for $ 65.000 minus a 10% discount ($ 6.500) = $ 58.500, AStEGB, Invoice from
Paul Rosenberg, New York, made out to Emil Bührle, 22 September 1952; Letter from Paul Rosenberg, New
York, to Emil Bührle, 2 December 1952, acknowledging receipt of $ 157.500 for 3 paintings from the group of
10, including Ingres, Mme Ingres; Correspondence regarding the import of the 10 pictures to Switzerland, 12
January 1956–22 June 1956, the Ingres figuring in the papers as "School of Ingres, Portrait of a Woman",
with a declared value of $ 3.000.
Exhibitions
Exposition Ingres […] organisée au profit du Musée Ingres, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris 1911, no. 23.
▪ Exposition centennale de l’art français à Saint Pétersbourg, Institut Français, St. Petersburg 1912,
no. 657. ▪ Exposition David et ses élèves, Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris 1913, no. 185. ▪
Exposition d'art français du XIXe siècle, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen 1914, no. 120. ▪
Œuvres de grands maîtres du dix-neuvième siècle, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Paris 1922, no. 48. ▪ L’Art
français au service de la science française, Hôtel de la Chambre syndicale de la curiosité et des
beaux-arts, Paris 1923, no. 5. ▪ Portraits et figures de femmes, Ingres à Picasso, Galerie de la
Renaissance, Paris 1928, no. 100. ▪ Exhibition of French Art 1200–1900, Royal Academy of Arts,
London 1932, no. 299. Exhibition of Important Paintings by Great French Masters of the Nineteenth
Century, Paul Rosenberg & Durand-Ruel, New York 1934, no. 25. ▪ Portraits by Ingres, Image of an
Epoch, National Gallery, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York 1999–2000, no. 36 (exhibited in London only).
References
Henry Lapauze, Ingres, Sa vie & son œuve (1780–1867), D'après des documents inédits, Paris 1911,
pp. 160–161 (ill.), 166–168 (n. 1). ▪ Tyge Möller, "L'Exposition de l'art français du XIXe siècle à
Copenhague", in Gazette des Beaux-Arts (4/12) 1914, pp. 159. ▪ Louis Hourticq, Ingres, L'Œuvre du
maître, Paris 1928, p. 43 (ill., left). ▪ "Auktionsnachrichten, Pariser Kunstmarkt", in Kunst und
Künstler (27) 1928/29, pp. 408 (ill.), p. 454. ▪ Julius Meier-Graefe, Corot, Berlin 1930, pp. 105–106.
▪ Hubert Wilm, "Eine Ingres-Auktion in Paris", in Kunstsammler und Kunstmarkt, Munich 1930, p.
150. ▪ Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of French Art 1200–1900, London, January–March
1932, London 1933, no. 411, fig. 90 (left). ▪ Richard Sickert, "The French Exhibition, III. Within the
nineteenth century", in Burlington Magazine (60) 1932, p. 87. ▪ Karl Scheffler, Ingres, Berne 1949,
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fig. 22. ▪ Georges Wildenstein, Ingres, London 1954, no. 107, fig. 48 (21956). ▪ Emilio Radius, Ettore
Camesasca, L'opera completa di Ingres, Milan 1968, no. 87 (ill.; 21981; German edition: Das
gemalte Gesamtwerk von Ingres, Lucerne etc. 1968; French edition: Daniel Ternois, Ettore
Camesasca, Tout l'œuvre peint de Ingres, Paris 1971; 21984; Spanish edition: L'obra pictórica
completa de Ingres, Barcelona 1972; 21984). ▪ Hans Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D.
Ingres, vol. 1, Zurich 1977, p. 358–378 (ill.). ▪ Daniel Ternois, Ingres, Paris 1980, p. 79, no. 119
(ill.). ▪ Georges Vigne, Ingres, Paris 1995, p. 119, fig. 87 (English edition: New York). ▪ Karin H.
Gimme, Ingres 1780–1867, Cologne etc. 2006, pp. 29, 35 (ill.). ▪ Nathalie Kaufmann, Les couleurs
du désir, Ces femmes sans qui les chefs d'œuvre n'existeraient pas, Paris 2011, pp. 74–75 (ill.). ▪
Christopher Riopelle, "Los retratos italianos 1806–1824," in Ingres, (exh. cat.) Museo Nacional del
Prado, Madrid 2015, p. 189, fig. 88.
Catalogues of the Bührle Collection: 1966 & 1971, no. 136; 1973/86, no. 6; 1994/95, pp. 21–22;
2004/05: no. 69. ▪ Exhibitions of the Bührle Collection: Zurich 1958, no. 104; Munich 1958–59, no.
89; Zurich 2010, no. 136. ▪ Articles on the Bührle Collection: Wild 1958, p. 17.
Catalogues, exhibitions and articles cited in full see http://www.buehrle.ch/pdf/egbcat.pdf.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
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