Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Signed (lower right, partially legible): Ingres
Gallery Label This is a study for an altarpiece, "Christ Delivering the Keys to Saint Peter" (Musée Ingres, Montauban), commissioned in 1817 for San Trinità dei Monti, Rome, and completed in 1820. The composition of the altarpiece is based on Raphael's tapestry design of the same subject, which Ingres developed by means of a small oil sketch (Private collection), over seventy drawings, and seven oil studies in addition to the present one.
Provenance M. and Mme Paul Sigisbert Moitessier, Paris (by 1856–89; ?gift of the artist); Mme Paul Sigisbert Moitessier, née Marie-Clotilde-Inès de Foucauld, Paris (1889–d. 1897); her daughter, Françoise-Camille-Marie, vicomtesse Olivier-Achille-Gabriel Taillepied de Bondy, née Moitessier, Paris (from 1897); by descent, Taillepied de Bondy family, Paris (until 1984); Prosper Crabbe, Brussels; sale, Jean-Paul Couturier and Raymond de Nicolay, Paris, December 12, 1984, no. 32, as "Étude de tête de Saint-Jean," for Fr 600,000 to Whitney; [Wheelock Whitney, New York, 1984–85; sold to MMA]
Exhibition History Paris. Palais des Beaux-Arts. "Exposition universelle de 1855," May 15, 1855–?, no. 3375 (as "4 Têtes d'étude, 'même numéro," one of these probably our picture).
Galerie de la société des amis des arts de Bordeaux. "Salon des amis des arts de Bordeaux," 1867, no. 312 [see Refs. Wildenstein 1954 and Dussol 1997].
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Ingres at the Metropolitan," December 13, 1988–March 19, 1989, no catalogue (as "Head of Saint John the Evangelist").
Montauban. Musée Ingres. "Invitation no. 2: Les clés du ciel ou de la gloire," January 27, 1999–January 12, 2000, no. 9.
References "Explication des ouvrages de peintures, sculpture, gravure, lithographie et architecture des artistes vivants étrangers et français." Exposition Universelle de 1855 . Exh. cat., Palais des Beaux-Arts. Paris, 1855, p. 353, no. 3375.Ingres: Sa vie, ses travaux, sa doctrine . Paris, 1870, p. 178.The Paintings of J. A. D. Ingres . 1st ed. 1954, pp. 190–91, no. 137, fig. 80.The Paintings of J. A. D. Ingres . 2nd revised ed. London, 1956, pp. 190–91, no. 137, fig. 80.in L'opera completa di Ingres . Milan, 1968, pp. 100–101, no. 104i, ill.Ingres . Milan, 1980, p. 179, no. 153, ill.in Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 1985–1986 . New York, 1986, pp. 33–34, ill.Bulletin du Musée Ingres no. 67–68 (1995), p. 106.Ingres . New York, 1995, pp. 326, 332, no. 105i.Art et bourgeoisie: La société des amis des arts de Bordeaux (1851–1939) . Bordeaux, 1997, p. 263.Invitation no. 2: Les clés du ciel ou de la gloire (1999), pp. 4, 13–14, no. 9, ill. (color).
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