Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Head of Saint John the Evangelist



Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - Head of Saint John the Evangelist



Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Head of Saint John the Evangelist
39.4 x 27 cm
Oil on canvas, laid down on wood
Signed lower right, partially legible: Ingres
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Purchase, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, by exchange, and Wolfe Fund, 1985


Provenance

M. and Mme Paul Sigisbert Moitessier, Paris, by 1856–his d. 1889 (?gift of the artist)
Mme Moitessier, Paris, 1889–died 1897
her daughter, Françoise-Camille-Marie, vicomtesse Olivier-Achille-Gabriel Taillepied de Bondy, Paris, from 1897
by descent, Taillepied de Bondy family, Paris, until 1984
sale, Jean-Paul Couturier and Raymond de Nicolay, Paris, 12 December 1984, nr. 32, as "Étude de tête de Saint-Jean," for Fr 600,000 to Whitney
with Wheelock Whitney, New York, 1984–85; sold to MMA
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External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 1985.118

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