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Study for the Sculpture Ugolino and His Children

Jean Baptiste Carpeaux · 1860

Provenance

Ownership history

Estate of the artist, from 1875 [Lugt 500]; by descent to the artist’s daughter, Mme. Clément-Carpeaux; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 31-June 2, 1894, Carpeaux sale, lot 199, to Derville [annotated sale catalogue]. Richard S. Davis, Wyazata, Minn. [Chicago 1974]. Germain Seligmann, New York [stamp; not in Lugt]; sold by Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1963.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

New York, Wildenstein & Co., "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, cat. 95.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 144-45, cat. 71 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, "Sur les traces de Jean Baptiste Carpeaux," March 11-May 5, 1975, cat. 75.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 140-41, cat. 63 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.

Literature

The Art Quarterly, XXVI (Autumn 1963), p. 363 (ill.).
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Bulletin, LXII (1964), p. 140.
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the 19th Century (Chicago, 1979), no. 1F2.
Nathan Goldstein, The Art of Responsive Drawing, 5th ed. (Upper Saddle River, N.J., 1999), pp. 149-50, fig. 6.7.

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