French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)
Studies for "The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorien" (Saint, Mother, and Proconsul), 1833
Painting
French
, 19th century
Oil over graphite and red chalk (stylus transfer), squared in graphite, on canvas, backed by a wood panel.
sight: 60 x 47.6 cm (23 5/8 x 18 3/4 in.)
framed: 81.8 x 69.2 cm (32 3/16 x 27 1/4 in.)
framed: 81.8 x 69.2 cm (32 3/16 x 27 1/4 in.)
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
, 1943.245
Department of Paintings, Sculpture & Decorative Arts
, Marks
signed: l.r.: Ingres
Provenance
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, (1833-1866) sold; to Etienne-François Haro, Paris (until 1867); [Ingres sale, Hôtel Drouot, May 6-7, 1867 no. 7]; to Eugène Lecompte, Paris (1867-1906); [his sale, Hôtel Drouot, June 11-13, 1906, no. 49] . Comtesse de Behague, Paris (1911-1934) sold; [through Martin Birnbaum]; to Grenville L. WInthrop (1934-1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum
Notes: Lecomte paid Fr 7,050 for this canvas in the Ingres sale
The Comtesse de Behague was also known as the Comtesse de Bearn (before her divorce).
Winthrop paid Fr 66,000 ($4400)
Notes: Lecomte paid Fr 7,050 for this canvas in the Ingres sale
The Comtesse de Behague was also known as the Comtesse de Bearn (before her divorce).
Winthrop paid Fr 66,000 ($4400)
Bibliography
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. 12
"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, no. 7
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), p. 184, under no. 16
Téodor de Wyzewa, L'Oeuvre Peint de Jean-Dominique Ingres, Frédéric Gittler (Paris, France, 1907), pl. XXVII, p. iv, no. 27
Henry Lapauze, Ingres, sa vie & son oeuvre, G. Petit (Paris, France, 1911), pp. 303, 552
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 n. 1
Georges Wildenstein, Ingres, Phaidon Press (London, England, 1954), pl. 74, no. 213
Pontus Grate, Deux critiques d'art de l'epoque Romantique: Gustave Planche et Theophile Thore, Almqvist & and Wiksell (Stockholm, Sweden, 1959), p. 147
Martin Birnbaum, The Last Romantic, (New York, NY, 1960), p. 188, no. 1
Valentina N. Berezina, Zhan Ogrust Dominik Engr, Sovestkii khudozhnik (Leningrad, 1967), no. 52
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, p. 228
Emilio Radius and Ettore Camesasca, L'opera completa di Ingres, Rizzoli (Milan, Italy, 1968), p. 107, no. 127d
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Daniel Ternois, Ingres, Editions Nathan (Paris, France, 1980), no. 227, repr. p. 182
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. 36, p. 108, repr. b/w p. 110, in color p. 9
Gaetan Picon, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Quai des Celestins, 4 (New York, NY, 1980), repr. in b/w p. 64
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Kristin A. Mortimer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums/Abbeville Press (Cambridge, MA, New York, NY, 1985), no. 199, p. 175, repr. in b/w
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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 color pl. 210, p. 246
Barbara Maria Stafford, Artful Science: Enlightenment, Entertainment,and the Eclipse of Visual Education, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA, 1994), repr. in b/w p. 214, fig. 151
Georges Vigne, Ingres, Citadelles &, Mazenod and Abbeville Press (Paris, France; New York, NY, 1995), pp. 189, 192, repr. as fig. 158
Georges Vigne, Dessins d'Ingres: Catalogue raisonné des dessins du musée de Montauban, Gallimard/Reunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1995), pp. 106 above no. 518, 114 under no. 568
"[Unidentified article]", The Harvard Review of Philosophy (Spring 1995), vol. V, repr. in color on cover
Valérie Bajou, Monsieur Ingres, Editions Adam Biro (Paris, France, 1999), pp. 237-239, repr. in color fig. 165
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. 4
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
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. 70, 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. 70, 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. 7
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. 174
Susan L. Siegfried, Ingres: Painting Reimagined, Yale University Press (New Haven, 2009), p. 361, repr. in b/w p. 362 as fig. 217
Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Editions D'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 179
"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, no. 7
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), p. 184, under no. 16
Téodor de Wyzewa, L'Oeuvre Peint de Jean-Dominique Ingres, Frédéric Gittler (Paris, France, 1907), pl. XXVII, p. iv, no. 27
Henry Lapauze, Ingres, sa vie & son oeuvre, G. Petit (Paris, France, 1911), pp. 303, 552
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 n. 1
Georges Wildenstein, Ingres, Phaidon Press (London, England, 1954), pl. 74, no. 213
Pontus Grate, Deux critiques d'art de l'epoque Romantique: Gustave Planche et Theophile Thore, Almqvist & and Wiksell (Stockholm, Sweden, 1959), p. 147
Martin Birnbaum, The Last Romantic, (New York, NY, 1960), p. 188, no. 1
Valentina N. Berezina, Zhan Ogrust Dominik Engr, Sovestkii khudozhnik (Leningrad, 1967), no. 52
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, p. 228
Emilio Radius and Ettore Camesasca, L'opera completa di Ingres, Rizzoli (Milan, Italy, 1968), p. 107, no. 127d
Ettore Camesasca and Daniel Ternois, Tout l'oeuvre peint d'Ingres, (Paris, France, 1971), p. 107, no. 128d
Daniel Ternois, Ingres, Editions Nathan (Paris, France, 1980), no. 227, repr. p. 182
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. 36, p. 108, repr. b/w p. 110, in color p. 9
Gaetan Picon, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Quai des Celestins, 4 (New York, NY, 1980), repr. in b/w p. 64
25 Great Masters of Modern Art: Ingres, Kodansha (Tokyo, Japan, 1981), repr. in color no. 63
Hilton Brown, "Academic Art Education and Studio Practices", American Artist (February 1985), ill. p. 52
Kristin A. Mortimer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums/Abbeville Press (Cambridge, MA, New York, NY, 1985), no. 199, p. 175, repr. in b/w
Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 67, color plate; pp. 112, 226, repr. b/w cat. no. 276
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 color pl. 210, p. 246
Barbara Maria Stafford, Artful Science: Enlightenment, Entertainment,and the Eclipse of Visual Education, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA, 1994), repr. in b/w p. 214, fig. 151
Georges Vigne, Ingres, Citadelles &, Mazenod and Abbeville Press (Paris, France; New York, NY, 1995), pp. 189, 192, repr. as fig. 158
Georges Vigne, Dessins d'Ingres: Catalogue raisonné des dessins du musée de Montauban, Gallimard/Reunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1995), pp. 106 above no. 518, 114 under no. 568
"[Unidentified article]", The Harvard Review of Philosophy (Spring 1995), vol. V, repr. in color on cover
Valérie Bajou, Monsieur Ingres, Editions Adam Biro (Paris, France, 1999), pp. 237-239, repr. in color fig. 165
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. 4
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
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. 70, 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. 70, 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. 7
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. 174
Susan L. Siegfried, Ingres: Painting Reimagined, Yale University Press (New Haven, 2009), p. 361, repr. in b/w p. 362 as fig. 217
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. 12
Master Paintings from the Fogg Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/13/1977 - 08/31/1977
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, 70
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, no. 36
Masterpieces of European Art, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 06/22/1985 - 09/15/1985
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, 70; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004, 70
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 08 Rotation 2), Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 10/23/2008 - 11/16/2008
HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 09 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/16/2009 - 11/08/2009