Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Study for “Vénus à Paphos”
1852
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
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.
