Notice sur le Tableau du Martyre de Saint Symphorien, par M. Ingres

by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

$250 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

24 pp. 8vo 212 x 135 mm. , orig. green printed wrappers, stitched as issued. Autun: Dejussieu & L. Villedey, 1856. Scarce critical essay on Ingres’s painting Le Martyre de saint Symphorien, which has been housed in the Cathédrale Saint-Lazare d’Autun since 1834. The painting was originally ordered by Roch-Etienne de Vichy, the bishop of Autun, in 1824. Ingres finally completed it in 1834 and selected it for that year’s Salon, where it was

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