National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: Ulysses
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  • Exhibition History
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Overview

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Inscription

probably falsely inscribed lower right, in black paint: Ingres

Marks and Labels

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Provenance

Sold by Ingres to Etienne François Haro [1827-1897] on 13 October 1866;[1] (Ingres sale, Hôtel Drouot, 6 May 1867, no. 32, bought in by Haro).[2] Etienne François Haro [1827-1897] and his sons, Jules [1855-1892] and Henri Haro [1855-1911], Paris; (their sale, Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, 30-31 May 1892, no. 113).[3] (Galerie Georges Bernheim, Paris); sold 1 June 1925 to Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; bequest to NGA.

[1] According to documents cited by Henry Lapauze (Ingres, sa vie et sa oeuvre [1780-1867] d'après documents inédites, Paris, 1911: 552-553), the NGA painting was included in the bulk sale of thirty-one paintings and forty-seven drawings concluded by Ingres, three months before his death, with Haro, who had once been one of his studio assistants and was then a substantial dealer. In the document drawn up at the time, the NGA painting was listed, under number 10, among the many studies for the artist's monumental painting Apotheosis of Homer (Louvre, Paris).

[2] The sale was first advertised in La Chronique des arts, no. 181 (21 April 1867), as "Vente de quatre-vingt-dix tableaux-dessins," and was accompanied by a Catalogue des tableaux, dessins, aquarelles et études peints par M. J.D.A. [sic] Ingres, which gives the dimensions of the various studies and describes them as being "on canvas, mounted on panel." Rather than a general sale of the contents of Ingres' studio, this auction in fact included only the selection of studies and drawings that Ingres had consigned to Haro the year before. Its organizers emphasised that it was Ingres himself who had designated these particular works for public sale: "tous ces tableaux, études et dessins, signés et datés, ont été choisis par M. Ingres pour être mis en vente publique" (La Chronique des arts no. 182 [28 April 1867]). Reported to have been sold for the (low) price of five hundred francs (La Chronique des arts no. 184 [12 May 1867]: 146), the NGA painting was in fact bought in and remained with the firm of Haro until 1892.

[3] Haro had at one time been an assistant in the studios of Ingres and Delacroix, his services to the latter as a color merchant, restorer, and framer from 1850 to 1858 being frequently mentioned in the artist's Journals. Though he had entertained artistic ambitions of his own and exhibited paintings at the Salons of 1866 and 1879, Haro gradually found his true vocation as a successful dealer in paintings. Two sons, Henri and Jules, assisted him in his business. It was the death of Jules in 1892 that prompted the sale that year of works from the collection of Haro, "père et fils," in which the NGA painting figured.

Exhibition History

1867
Tableaux, études peintes, dessins et croquis de J.-A.-D. Ingres, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1867, no 74
1928
100 Years of French Portraits from the Chester Dale Collection, Museum of French Art, New York, 1928, no. 2
1965
The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.

Bibliography

1870
Delaborde, Henri. Ingres: sa vie, ses travaux, sa doctrine. Paris, 1870: 241, no. 86.
1911
Lapauze, Henry. Ingres, sa vie et son oeuvre (1780-1867) d'après documents inédites. Paris, 1911: 552-553.
1929
Dale, Maud. Before Manet to Modigliani from the Chester Dale Collection. New York, 1929: no. 2, repro., as Study for Ulysses.
1929
Art News 27 (April 1929): 54, repro.
1929
New York Herald Tribune 9 December 1929: VII, 10, repro.
1929
Scribner's Magazine 85, no. 4 (April 1929): 486, repro.
1956
Wildenstein, Georges. Ingres. 2nd ed. New York, 1956: 204, no. 200.
1965
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 30, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 70.
1968
Camesasca, Ettore. L'Opera completa di Ingres. Milan, 1968: 105, no. 120 kk.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 61, repro.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 180, repro.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 423, no. 602, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 209, repro.
2000
Eitner, Lorenz. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I: Before Impressionism. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 297-300, color repro.

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