Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002314Study for the Sculpture Ugolino and His Children
Provenance
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.
Exhibition history
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.
Publications
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.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean Baptiste Carpeaux / French, 1827-1875
- Date
- 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.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- gouache
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Helen Regenstein Collection
- Accession no.
- 1963.264
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