All sales are subject to 888 Auctions’ Terms and Conditions of Sale. Bidding is available by live in-house bidding and absentee. A 20% buyer's premium is added to the hammer price of each lot. PAYMENT BY, BANK DRAFT, CERTIFIED CHEQUE OR WIRE TRANSFER ONLY. The auctioneer and 888 Auctions shall have the right to withdraw any item at any time for any reason and to default any sale in the event of an error or dispute. The auctioneer will also have full discretion to reopen the bidding, cancel the sale or re-offer and resell the property. Should a dispute arise after the auction, our sale record is conclusive.
Graphite on paper. Featuring a portrait. Signed and attributed to Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres on the lower right corner. 31 x 21 cm (12.2 x 8.3 inches). Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a seminal French painter who championed Neoclassicism during a period that saw the rise of Romantic painters like Eugène Delacroix. Rendered with precise contours and polished brushwork, Jupiter and Thetis (1811) is a hallmark example of Ingres’s willingness to distort the human figure in order to maintain a balance of form and composition. “There are not two arts, there is only one: that which has as its foundation the beautiful, which is eternal and natural,” he once proclaimed. “Those who seek elsewhere deceive themselves, and in the most fatal manner.” Born on August 29, 1780 in Montauban, France, his father Jean-Marie-Joseph Ingres taught him both violin and drawing as a youth. Ingres went on to study at the Académie Royal de Peinture, Sculpture, et Architecture in Toulouse before moving to Paris in 1797. In Paris, his father’s influence found him a place in the classroom of the famed Neoclassicist painter Jacques-Louis David. The young Ingres was profoundly influenced by David, as well as by the works of antiquity he saw in the Louvre. Winning the esteemed Prix de Rome in 1801, he traveled to Italy five years later and remained there for another 18 years. Upon his return to Paris, Ingres attempted to reestablish his relationship with the Salon but received an icy reception. The artist died on January 14, 1867 in Paris, France. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery in London, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. PROVENANCE: Private estate (Perugia, Italy)
---以下为第三方软件翻译,仅供参考---
品相报告
All lots that do not carry established documented provenance nor any past record of auction history record are described in the catalog as attributed.
All authorship of items in this catalog are described according to the following terms:
By [Artist Name]: In our opinion, the work is by the artist.
Attributed to [Artist Name]: In our opinion, the work may be ascribed to the artist on the basis of style, but there may be some question as to actual authorship.
In the manner of [Artist Name]: In our opinion, the work was executed by an unknown hand, but was designed deliberately to emulate the style of the artist.
After [Artist Name]: In our opinion, the work was executed by an unknown hand, but is a deliberate copy of a known work by the artist.
Circle of [Artist Name]: In our opinion, a work of the period of the artist showing his influence, closely associated with the artist but not necessarily his pupil.
Follower of [Artist Name]: In our opinion, a work by a pupil or a follower of the artist (not necessarily a pupil).
American, 19th century: In our opinion, this work was executed by an unknown hand, and can only be identified by origin (i.e., region, period).
Bears signature: In our opinion, the signature on the artwork may be spurious.