French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)
Studies for "The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorien" (Lictors, Stone Thrower, and Spectator), 1833
Painting
French
, 19th century
Oil over graphite, squared in graphite, on canvas with irregular edges, backed by canvas, backed by an aluminum panel.
sight: 60.3 x 49.5 cm (23 3/4 x 19 1/2 in.)
framed: 79.4 x 69.5 x 6.4 cm (31 1/4 x 27 3/8 x 2 1/2 in.)
framed: 79.4 x 69.5 x 6.4 cm (31 1/4 x 27 3/8 x 2 1/2 in.)
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
, 1943.246
Department of Paintings, Sculpture & Decorative Arts
, Marks
signed: l.l.: Ingres
inscription: Inscribed in graphite l.l. below standing figure's foot: [?] plus haut; below stone-thrower's proper left hand: p[lus] fin.
Provenance
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Created, 1833, Sold to Haro, 1866.
Etienne-François Haro, Paris?, Purchased from the artist, 1866, Sold at Ingres sale, Hotel Drouot, 1867. Object was no. 8 in sale; presumably bought in for Fr 4,000
Etienne-François and Henri Haro, Paris, Haro sale, Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1892. Object was no. 100, and sold for Fr 3,600. Henri was the son of Etienne-François
Baron Joseph Vitta, Paris, Sold to Winthrop through Birnbaum, 1935. The work was included in Vitta's sale of March 15, 1935 at Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, as no. 5, but was bought in for Fr 13,500 and sold to Winthrop in a private transaction.
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Purchased from Baron Joseph Vitta, through Birnb, 1935, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1943. Winthrop paid Fr 200,000 for this work and 1943.254.
Etienne-François Haro, Paris?, Purchased from the artist, 1866, Sold at Ingres sale, Hotel Drouot, 1867. Object was no. 8 in sale; presumably bought in for Fr 4,000
Etienne-François and Henri Haro, Paris, Haro sale, Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1892. Object was no. 100, and sold for Fr 3,600. Henri was the son of Etienne-François
Baron Joseph Vitta, Paris, Sold to Winthrop through Birnbaum, 1935. The work was included in Vitta's sale of March 15, 1935 at Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, as no. 5, but was bought in for Fr 13,500 and sold to Winthrop in a private transaction.
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Purchased from Baron Joseph Vitta, through Birnb, 1935, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1943. Winthrop paid Fr 200,000 for this work and 1943.254.
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Catalogue des tableaux, études peintes, dessins et croquis de J.A.D. Ingres exposé dans les galeries de l'Ecole impériale des Beaux-Arts, exh. cat., Ad. Laine et J. Havard (Paris, France, 1867), no. 13
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Chinese Sculpture, Bronzes, Jades, Paintings and Drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art; selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1943), p. 3
Agnes Mongan, "Drawings by Ingres in the Winthrop Collection", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (July-December 1944), ser. 6, 26, p. 388-412, no. 1
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Patricia Condon, Ingres, In Pursuit of Perfection: the Art of J.-A.-D. Ingres, exh. cat., J.B. Speed Art Museum (Louisville, KY, 1983), p. 242
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[Eugéne-Emmanuel Pineu-Duval] Amaury-Duval, L'Atelier d'Ingres: Edition critique de l'ouvrage publié à Paris en 1878, ed. Daniel Ternois Arthena (Paris, France, 1993), repr. in b/w fig. 86, p. 115
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Gary Tinterow and Philip Conisbee, Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1999), pp. 275, 282, 284, 286-7
Andrew Carrington Shelton, "Art, Politics, and the Politics of Art: Ingres's Saint Symphorien at the 1834 Salon", The Art Bulletin (December 2001), vol. LXXXIII no. 4, pp. 711-739, p. 715, repr. as fig. 5
Daniel Ternois, Lettres d’Ingres à Marcotte d’Argenteuil: dictionnaire, Librairie des Arts et Métiers-Ed. Jacques Laget (Nogent-le-Roi, France, 2001), p. 149 n. 25
Chikashi Kitazaki, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., ed. Chikashi Kitazaki National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, Japan, 2002), pp. 74-75, cat. #5, color repr.
Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 71, pp. 191-195, repr. in color
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., ed. Stephan Wolohojian The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (New York, NY, 2003), no. 71, pp. 183-187, repr. in color
"The Object of Art Museums", Whose Muse? Art Museums and the Public Trust, ed. James Cuno, Princeton University Press/Harvard University Art Museums (Princeton, NJ / Cambridge, MA, 2004), pp. 49-75, p. 64, repr. as fig. 8
Vincent Pomarède, Stéphane Guégan, Louis-Antoine Prat and Eric Bertin, Ingres 1780-1867, exh. cat., Editions Gallimard (Paris, France, 2006), pp. 241-242, repr. as ill. 175
Susan L. Siegfried, Ingres: Painting Reimagined, Yale University Press (New Haven, 2009), p. 361, repr. in b/w p. 363 as fig. 218
Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Editions D'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 179
Catalogue des tableaux, études peintes, dessins et croquis de J.A.D. Ingres exposé dans les galeries de l'Ecole impériale des Beaux-Arts, exh. cat., Ad. Laine et J. Havard (Paris, France, 1867), no. 13
"Mouvement des Arts et de la Curiosité. Tableaux et Dessins d'Ingres", La Chronique des Arts et de la Curiosité (May 5 and 12, 1867), vol. V, p. 145
Henri, Vicomte Delaborde, Ingres, sa vie, ses travaux, sa doctrine, d'apres les notices manuscrites et les lettres du maitre, H. Plon (Paris, France, 1870), pp. 184-185, under no. 16
Vente par suite de décès des collections de MM Haro, auct. cat., Galerie Sedelmeyer (Paris, France, May 31, 1892), pp. xvi, 63, repr. opp. p. 64, no. 100
Henry Lapauze, Ingres, sa vie & son oeuvre, G. Petit (Paris, France, 1911), p. 552
Exposition Ingres, exh. cat., Musée Jules Cheret (Nice, France, 1931), p. 20, no. 9; repr. opp. p. 12
Baron Vitta sale, auct. cat., Galerie Jean Charpentier (Paris, France, March 15, 1935), no. 5
Chinese Sculpture, Bronzes, Jades, Paintings and Drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art; selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1943), p. 3
Agnes Mongan, "Drawings by Ingres in the Winthrop Collection", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (July-December 1944), ser. 6, 26, p. 388-412, no. 1
Georges Wildenstein, Ingres, Phaidon Press (London, England, 1954), no. 214
Martin Birnbaum, The Last Romantic, (New York, NY, 1960), p. 188
Ingres: Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Drawings, Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1967), under no. 60
Ingres, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1967), under no. 161
Emilio Radius and Ettore Camesasca, L'opera completa di Ingres, Rizzoli (Milan, Italy, 1968), p. 107, no. 127f
Ettore Camesasca and Daniel Ternois, Tout l'oeuvre peint d'Ingres, (Paris, France, 1971), p. 107, no. 128f
Daniel Ternois, Ingres, Editions Nathan (Paris, France, 1980), no. 229, p. 182, repr.
Susan L. Siegfried and Marjorie B. Cohn, Works by J. A. D. Ingres in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), no. 37, p. 109, repr. p. 10
Patricia Condon, Ingres, In Pursuit of Perfection: the Art of J.-A.-D. Ingres, exh. cat., J.B. Speed Art Museum (Louisville, KY, 1983), p. 242
Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), pp. 112, 226, repr. b/w cat. no. 277
Annalisa Zanni, Ingres: catalogo completo dei dipinti, Cantini Editore (Florence, Italy, 1990), p. 108, under no. 85
[Eugéne-Emmanuel Pineu-Duval] Amaury-Duval, L'Atelier d'Ingres: Edition critique de l'ouvrage publié à Paris en 1878, ed. Daniel Ternois Arthena (Paris, France, 1993), repr. in b/w fig. 86, p. 115
Georges Vigne, Ingres, Citadelles &, Mazenod and Abbeville Press (Paris, France; New York, NY, 1995), pp. 189-191, repr. as fig. 160
Georges Vigne, Dessins d'Ingres: Catalogue raisonné des dessins du musée de Montauban, Gallimard/Reunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1995), p. 106
Gary Tinterow and Philip Conisbee, Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1999), pp. 275, 282, 284, 286-7
Andrew Carrington Shelton, "Art, Politics, and the Politics of Art: Ingres's Saint Symphorien at the 1834 Salon", The Art Bulletin (December 2001), vol. LXXXIII no. 4, pp. 711-739, p. 715, repr. as fig. 5
Daniel Ternois, Lettres d’Ingres à Marcotte d’Argenteuil: dictionnaire, Librairie des Arts et Métiers-Ed. Jacques Laget (Nogent-le-Roi, France, 2001), p. 149 n. 25
Chikashi Kitazaki, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., ed. Chikashi Kitazaki National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, Japan, 2002), pp. 74-75, cat. #5, color repr.
Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 71, pp. 191-195, repr. in color
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., ed. Stephan Wolohojian The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (New York, NY, 2003), no. 71, pp. 183-187, repr. in color
"The Object of Art Museums", Whose Muse? Art Museums and the Public Trust, ed. James Cuno, Princeton University Press/Harvard University Art Museums (Princeton, NJ / Cambridge, MA, 2004), pp. 49-75, p. 64, repr. as fig. 8
Vincent Pomarède, Stéphane Guégan, Louis-Antoine Prat and Eric Bertin, Ingres 1780-1867, exh. cat., Editions Gallimard (Paris, France, 2006), pp. 241-242, repr. as ill. 175
Susan L. Siegfried, Ingres: Painting Reimagined, Yale University Press (New Haven, 2009), p. 361, repr. in b/w p. 363 as fig. 218
Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Editions D'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 179
Exhibition History
Tableaux, etudes peintes, dessins et croquis de J.-A.-D. Ingres peintre d'histoire, sénateur, membre de l'Institut, École Impériale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 04/10/1867 - 12/31/1867, no. 13
Exposition Ingres, Musée Jules Cheret, Nice, 03/01/1931 - 03/28/1931
A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, National Gallery, London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003, 71
Chinese sculpture, bronzes, jades, paintings and drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art : selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/01/1943 - 02/28/1944
Works by J.-A.-D. Ingres in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/17/1980 - 12/07/1980
Masterpieces of European Art, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 06/22/1985 - 09/15/1985
Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 09/14/2002 - 12/08/2002, no. 5
A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003, 71; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004, 71
For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004 -
HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 10 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/15/2010 - 11/06/2010
HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 11 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 10/07/2011 - 11/05/2011