Joan of Arc Standing at the Altar at Reims Cathedral, c. 1844

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink and graphite on tracing paper laid down on blue paper

Dimensions

overall: 30.1 x 39.3 cm (11 7/8 x 15 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Katherine Baer and Juan Esteban Pereira in memory of J. Carter Brown

Accession Number

2002.103.1

Artists / Makers

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (artist) French, 1780 - 1867

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

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.

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

Balze, Raymond
Newhouse, Jill, Ms.

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.