No Reserve
104
After Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
À Mr. A. Leclère, ses élèves et ses amis (To Mr. A. Leclere, His Students and His Friends), by Ms. Louise Girard
- Estimate
- $700 - 1,000•
$567
Lot Details
Crayon-manner engraving, on wove paper, with margins.
1850
I. plate mark 15 3/4 x 11 3/4 in. (40 x 29.8 cm)
S. 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
S. 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Engraved 'M.elle Girard Sc Paris / 1850' and 'Ingres D. a Rome / 1812', and engraved dedication below 'A M.r A. Leclere / ses eleves et ses amis.', unframed.
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Portrait of French architects Achille Leclère (left) and Jean Louis Provost (right) while studying in Rome, after a 1812 drawing by Ingres now at the Smith College Museum of Art. Louise Girard was a female painter and engraver; wife of Alexis François Girard, worked in collaboration with him, sometimes lettered as Mme Girard. This image was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1850.
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