By Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Jean Auguste Dominique INGRES (Montauban 1780 – 1867 Paris)
Apelles holding his palette and brushes
Stumped pencil and white heightening on light brown laid paper, laid down on thin card
11 3/4 x 7 1/8 in
30 x 18 cm
Signed lower left: “à Mr Visconti / Ingres”
This drawing relates to Ingres’s painting The Apotheosis of Homer, completed in 1827 for the
decoration of the Musée Charles X in the Louvre (Paintings Department, inv. 5417)—a
composition which the artist later revisited in a drawing he worked on for over twenty years
(the number of assembled historical figures nearly doubled in the meantime, increasing from
forty-two to eighty-two), and which he only completed in 1865: Homer Deified (Louvre
Museum, Department of Drawings, inv. RF 5273).
It specifically depicts the figure of Apelles, placed on the left in both works, holding Raphael’s
hand and presenting the epic Greek poet with a palette and brushes. In the Louvre painting...
Category
Romantic 1860s Art