Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Study for “Vénus à Paphos”
1851
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Study for “Vénus à Paphos”
1851
Physical Qualities
Graphite, Sheet: 316 × 203 mm. (12 7/16 × 8 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.12.661
Nude female figure seated facing to the right in 3/4 view. She holds an object (fruit?) in her proper right hand that is held in front of her stomach. To the right of the figure are light sketches of another arm.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone (1870-1949), Baltimore, 1937, purchased for 20,000 Swiss francs; Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne, 1937; André Schoeller (1879-1955), Paris; Jacques Mathey (1883-1973), purchased for 2,800 francs from the Anatole France sale; Anatole France Sale, Hôtel Drouot, April 20-21, 1932, no. 89; Anatole France (1844-1924), Paris; J.A.D. Ingres Sale, 1867, Paris.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'A Century of Baltimore Collecting, 1840-1940', June 6-Sept. 1, 1941, p. 113.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Selections from the Cone Collection', Fall 1949, ill. p. 30. [no catalogue number and difficult to determine with absolute certainty whether it was included since the catalogue vaguely refers to 50 drawings].
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'From Ingres to Gauguin: French Nineteenth-Century Paintings Owned in Maryland', Nov.-Dec. 1951, p. 15, no. 9.
Paul Rosenberg and Co., New York, 'Ingres in American Collections', Apr. 7 -May 6, 1961, plate 53.
Cleveland Museum of Art, 'Neo-Classicism: Style and Motif', Sept. 21-Nov. 1, 1964, no. 132.
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH, 'Ingres and His Circle', March 3-24, 1967, no. 4, figure 4.
Shepherd Gallery, New York, 'The Non-Dissenters: David through Puvis de Chavannes', May-June, 1968, no. 24, plate xi.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Master Drawings by French Artists in the Museum's Collection," 9 May - 23 July, 1989.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from The Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August, 1995.
Jay Fisher, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November, 1996 - 19 January, 1997; Seattle Art Museum 20 February - 20 April, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 18 May - 13 July, 1997.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Selections from the Cone Collection', Fall 1949, ill. p. 30. [no catalogue number and difficult to determine with absolute certainty whether it was included since the catalogue vaguely refers to 50 drawings].
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'From Ingres to Gauguin: French Nineteenth-Century Paintings Owned in Maryland', Nov.-Dec. 1951, p. 15, no. 9.
Paul Rosenberg and Co., New York, 'Ingres in American Collections', Apr. 7 -May 6, 1961, plate 53.
Cleveland Museum of Art, 'Neo-Classicism: Style and Motif', Sept. 21-Nov. 1, 1964, no. 132.
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH, 'Ingres and His Circle', March 3-24, 1967, no. 4, figure 4.
Shepherd Gallery, New York, 'The Non-Dissenters: David through Puvis de Chavannes', May-June, 1968, no. 24, plate xi.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Master Drawings by French Artists in the Museum's Collection," 9 May - 23 July, 1989.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from The Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August, 1995.
Jay Fisher, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November, 1996 - 19 January, 1997; Seattle Art Museum 20 February - 20 April, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 18 May - 13 July, 1997.
Fisher, Jay McKean, et al. The Essence of Line: French drawings from Ingres to Degas. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005, p. 266-67, ill.
Hélène Toussaint, Les portraits d'Ingres: peintures des musées nationaux, Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1985, p. 133, no. XXIII 2.
Bernard Chaet, The Art of Drawing, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983, p. 178, fig. no. 229.
Brenda Richardson, Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta: The Cone Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 1985, p. 190.
Hans Naef, 'Zuwachs zum Werk von Ingres', Pantheon, 3:38 (July/Aug./Sept. 1979), p. 284, figure 1.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings in the Cone Collection, 1967, p. 72, no. 184.
Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin, 24:3 (Spring 1967); pp. 149, 155.
Arts Magazine, 39:1 (Oct. 1964), p. 34.
The Baltimore Museum of Art News, Oct. 1949, p. 30.
Inscribed: lower right in graphite: "blond / Ingres"
Markings: CM: JI in circle (Lugt 1477); MA in square.
