Comment on Jean-Marie-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) and Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844)
French art historian Jacques Foucart also mentioned the correspondence between the drawing of Alexander Baillie by Ingres and the bust by Thorvaldsen in the catalogue of the 1977 Thorvaldsen exhibition in Berne: Siegfried Gohr, dir., Bertel Thorvaldsen. Skulpturen, modelle, bozzetti,
handzeichnungen, Museen der Stadt (Cologne), février-avril 1977, p. 75. He dwelled on that subject in a later article published in the Bulletin du Musée Ingres, n° 45 (July 1980), p. 11. The two corresponding works of art are: 1) Bertel Thorvaldsen, Alexander Baillie, 1816, plaster bust, 59 cm-high, Copenhagen, Thorvaldsens Museum (Inv. A262); 2) J.A.-D. Ingres, Alexander Baillie, 1816, graphite pencil on paper, 21,5×16,5 cm, private collection (reproduced by Hans Naef in Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres, Berne, Benteli Verl., 1978 (Vol. II), p. 33-38 and in the catalogue by Gary Tinterow, Philip Conisbee, Christopher Riopelle, Hans Naef, Robert Rosenblum, Andrew Carrington Shelton, Georges Vigne, Rebecca A. Rabinow dir., Portraits by Ingres: Images of an Epoch, National Gallery (London), January 27 April 25 1999 ; National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), May 23-August 22 1999 ; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), October 5 1999-January 2 2000 ; New York, 1999, p. 209-210).
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