Joan of Arc Standing at the Altar at Reims Cathedral
c. 1844
Artist, French, 1780 - 1867
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink and graphite on tracing paper laid down on blue paper
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Credit Line
Gift of Katherine Baer and Juan Esteban Pereira in memory of J. Carter Brown
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Dimensions
overall: 30.1 x 39.3 cm (11 7/8 x 15 1/2 in.)
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Accession
2002.103.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Ingres' pupil, Raymond Balze, 1818-?; Morin collection (sale, R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam, 10-11 May 1927, no. 256); Sale, R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam, 1929 (according to 1953 sale cat.); Sale, R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam, 21-23 February 1933, no. 1011. Sale, Ketterer, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, 20 May 1953, no. 709; Curtis O. Baer; his son, Dr. George Baer, Atlanta; his daughter, Katherine Baer; gift to NGA, 2002.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1967
Ingres Centennial Exhibition, 1867 - 1967, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1967, no. 92.
1970
Classicism and Romanticism, French Drawings and Prints, 1800 - 1860, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1970, no. 55.
1981
Drawings from Georgia Collections, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1981, no. 2.
1985
Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso: The Curtis O. Baer Collection, NGA; Indianapolis Museum of Art; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore; 1985 - 1987, no. 67.
2006
"Joan of Arc: Her Image in France and America", The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2006-2007.
Inscriptions
by Raymond Balze, lower right in graphite: ces croquis preparatoire a un tablea / autre que le portrait costumé / du Musée du Louvre.; by Raymond Balze, lower left in graphite: Dessins pour Le plutarche français; lower center in graphite: note de R. Balze.
Wikidata ID
Q64581114