Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
French painter, 1780-1867
Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres's portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest legacy. A man profoundly respectful of the past, he assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix. Nevertheless, modern opinion has tended to regard Ingres and the other Neoclassicists of his era as embodying the Romantic spirit of his time, while his expressive distortions of form and space make him an important precursor of modern art.
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French painter (1780-1867). Letter with 32 signatures from members of the Association des Artistes peintres, sculpteurs, architectes, graveurs et dessinateurs. [Paris]. 20.10.1854. Folio. 2 pp. Bifolium with engraved letterhead.
$ 4,784 / 4.500 €
(45183/BN31393)
As a committee member of the group of artists to Madame Bonjean, who is appointed an honorary member for her generous donation to the Association. The Association des Artistes (called the Fondation Taylor) was created in 1844 by Isidore Justin Séverin Taylor and is today one of the most important institutes supporting artists and their work. Beside Taylor and Ingres, the present letter bears the signatures of e. g. Alexandre des Bar, Edouard Cibot, Léon Cogniet, Alexandre Couder, Alexis Daligé de Fontenay, Adrien Dauzats, Antoine-François Gelée, Jean-Louis Nicolaus Jaley, Charles Victor Eugène Lefebvre, Augustin François Lemaître, Jean-Baptiste Cicéron Lesueur, Mathieu Roland Meusnier, Pierre Justin Ouvrie, Alexis-Joseph Pérignon, François-Édouard Picot, Louis René Lucien Rollet, Georges Rouget, Louis-Henri de Rudder, Louis Soulange-Teissier, Julien Vallou de Villeneuve, and Horace Vernet.
- Rather strong damage to edges and spotty. An extraordinary document of the famous Association des Artistes..
French painter (1780-1867). Autograph letter signed ("JIngres"). Paris. 02.07.1862. 4to. 1 page on bifolium.
$ 3,721 / 3.500 €
(72810/BN46867)
To Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, Minister of State under Napoleon III, thanking "pour présenter à L'Empereur les projets de frontispice".
French painter (1780-1867). Autograph letter signed. Paris. 27.05.1841. 8vo. Single leaf inscribed on one page. Matted and framed.
$ 1,914 / 1.800 €
(74492/BN48518)
To an unnamed recipient, regarding his friend and student, the painter Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (1809-64) regarding a lithographic rendering of Ingres painting of the martyrdom of Saint Symphorien.
French painter (1780-1867). Autograph letter signed ("J. Ingres"). Paris. 4to. 1 p. on bifolium.
$ 2,658 / 2.500 €
(91644/BN60965)
To a friend and author, thanking him for one of his works and a dedication: "Je suis extrêmement touché et reconnaissant de l'envoi que vous avez bien voulu me faire de votre bel ouvrage et des trop charmants beaux vers qui l'accompagnent ; j'ai déjà eu le plaisir de lire votre bel et intéressant ouvrage lorsqu'il a paru dans la revue britannique et je suis trop heureux de le posséder; je vous remercie donc, mille fois, Monsieur et ami de cet aimable envoi, ainsi que de la belle lettre que vous avez bien voulu y joindre et qui n'en sera jamais séparée, mais que dans ma juste modestie je ne puis m'approprier qu'une petite partie des beautés qu'elle renferme".
- On Bath stationery. Well preserved..