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30 - Jean - Auguste Dominique INGRES (Montauban 1780 - Paris 1867…
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Jean - Auguste Dominique INGRES (Montauban 1780 - Paris 1867) Portrait of the sculptor Paul Lemoyne Black stone 20.5 x 15 cm Signed and dedicated lower right Ingres to / his friend Lemoyne Our drawing is the third known portrait of the sculptor Lemoyne by Ingres. It was drawn in Rome between 1810 and 1811, probably at the same time as the canvas painted on the young artist's arrival in the Eternal City. The painting is now in the Nelson - Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City (see the catalogue of the exhibition Portraits by Ingres - image of an epoch, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 29, reproduced), Ingres and Lemoyne must have been very close friends, since the painter gave the model this painting as a gift, with the wish that Lemoyne would never part with it. The sale of the work to the painter Jean Gigoux a few years later provoked his anger. At the same time, Ingres painted the portrait of the architect Dédéban (Musée des Beaux Arts de Besançon), and the previous year he had painted the famous portrait of Marius Granet (Musée Marius Granet - Aix en Provence). In 1810, Ingres decided to stay in Rome after his stay at the Villa Medici, discouraged by the incomprehension of Parisian critics. In 1841, Ingres drew a pencil portrait of Lemoyne, still in Rome, kept at the Musée Grobet - Labadié in Marseille (see Opus quoted above, reproduced in fig. 116). This portrait is also dedicated to his friend Lemoyne. Ingres was then coming to the end of his second stay in Rome, this time as director of the Académie de France in Rome (1835 - 1841). During these years, he painted relatively little, looking after his boarders and the refurbishment of the Villa and the Medici Gardens. Paul Lemoyne, known as Lemoyne Saint Paul (Paris 1784 - Rome 1873), settled in Rome permanently in 1810. The son of a goldsmith, he first trained at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. He made his debut at the Salon of 1814 and won a gold medal at the Salon of 1817. Having failed to win the Prix de Rome, Lemoyne decided to go to Rome at his own expense, strongly encouraged by Quatremère de Quincy, who recommended him to Canova. He became one of the city's leading French sculptors, often supported by official commissions from Paris, but also perfectly accepted by Italian artists. In 1831, Chateaubriand, who was ambassador at the time, commissioned a monument for Poussin (Church of San Lorenzo in Lucina). Between 1835 and 1838, he created the monument dedicated to another Frenchman living in Rome, Claude Lorrain, in the church of Saint Louis des Français. In the same church, he designed the tombs of Guérin and Boguet, in 1833 and 1839. He was appointed professor of sculpture at the Accademia di San Luca. Expert: MILLET René, expert approved by the Paris Court of Appeal - Expert: MILLET René
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