Study for the Sculpture Ugolino and His Children

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Prints and Drawings

1860

Jean Baptiste Carpeaux
French, 1827-1875

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean Baptiste Carpeaux
Title: Study for the Sculpture Ugolino and His Children
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1860
Medium: Pen and brown ink and opaque white and gray watercolors with white oil paint and black watercolor over black chalk on brown wove paper (Bristol board)
Dimensions: 62.4 × 47.9 cm (24 5/8 × 18 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Helen Regenstein Collection
Reference Number: 1963.264
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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.

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.

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.

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