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A portrait of a seated man.

The drawing in graphite on white paper depicts a man seated for a portrait, cropped beneath the waist. He wears a double-breasted jacket and faces the viewer, leaning on the left arm of his chair. On the right of the page is a table stacked with several books; the two visible titles read Louis David and Beaux Arts. There is written script in the lower right.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.849
People
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)
Title
Portrait of Etienne-Jean Delécluze
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1856
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297089

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite and white chalk on cream wove paper
Dimensions
33.2 x 25.1 cm (13 1/16 x 9 7/8 in.)
frame: 57.1 x 47.2 cm (22 1/2 x 18 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: J. Ingres / 1856
  • inscription: lower right, graphite, in artist's hand: Son ami et / condisciple Del.vit / J. Ingres / 1856
  • inscription: upper right, graphite, in artist's hand: M.R J. DELECLUSE

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Given by the artist to Étienne-Jean Delécluze, 1856; his nephew Adolphe-Étienne Viollet-le-Duc, 1861; his widow, Mme Viollet-le-Duc, née Louise-Stéphanie Girard; her son-in-law Alfred Vaudoyer, his son Léon-Jean-Georges Vaudoyer, by 1911; acquired through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, December 1934 (Fr 82,500); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.849
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Etienne-Jean Delécluze, Louis David, son école et son temps, Macula (Paris, 1855 (1983)), repr. facing p. 265
  • Edmond Saglio, "Un Nouveau Tableau de M. Ingres, liste complète de ses oeuvres", La Correspondence Litteraire (February 5, 1857), pg. 79
  • Emile Galichon, "Descriptions des dessins de M. Ingres exposés au Salon des Arts-Unis", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (March 15, 1861), vol. IX, no. 6, pg. 357
  • Charles Blanc, "La Salon des Arts-Unis", Gazette des beaux-arts (Paris, February 1, 1861), 9, pg. 191
  • Henri, Vicomte Delaborde, "Les dessins de M. Ingres au Salon des Arts Unis", Gazette des beaux-arts (Paris, March 1, 1861), 9, pg. 267
  • [Untitled], L'intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux (Paris, May 1, 1864), 1, no. 5, pg. 68
  • [Untitled], L'intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux (Paris, June 1, 1864), 1, no. 6, pp. 93, 94
  • 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), pg. 294, no. 280
  • Henri Auguste Jouin, Musée de portraits d’artistes, peintres, sculpteurs, architectes, graveurs, musiciens, artistes dramatiques, amateurs, etc., nés en France ou y ayant vécu, H. Laurens (Paris, 1888), pg. 49
  • [Untitled] (Paris, 1889), repr. facing pg. 472
  • Henri Bouchot, "Exposition des portraits des écrivains et journalistes du siècle", Gazette des beaux-arts (Paris, September 1, 1893), ser. 3, 10, pp. 208-10, repr. facing pg. 310
  • Georges Duplessis, Les portraits dessinés par J.-A.-D. Ingres, avec vingt photogravures par E. Charreyre, J. Rothschild (Paris, 1896), pg. 11, pl. 7
  • Henry Lapauze, Les dessins de J.-A.-D. Ingres du Musée de Montauban, J. E. Bulloz (Paris, France, 1901), pg. 250, cf. pg. 265
  • Alfred Pereire, Le Journal des débats politiques et littéraires, 1814-1914, E. Champion (Paris, 1914), pg. 110
  • Waldemar George, "Portraits par Ingres et se élèves", La Renaissance (October-November 1934), 17, repr. pg 199
  • Robert Baschet, E.-J. Delécluze, témoin de son temps, Boivin (Paris, 1942), pp. 61, 414, 439, repr. facing pg. 40
  • Agnes Mongan, "Drawings by Ingres in the Winthrop Collection", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (July-December 1944), ser. 6, 26, pp. 401-3, fig. 12
  • Jean Alazard, Ingres et l'Ingrisme, Michel (Paris, France, 1950), pg. 107, pl. 99
  • Norman Schlenoff, Ingres, ses sources littéraires, Presses Universitaires de France (Paris, France, 1956), pp. 295 n. 2, 301 n. 4, pl. 5
  • Victor Del Litto, Album Stendahl: Iconographie réunie et commentée, Gallimard (Paris, 1966), pg. 198, repr.
  • Elizabeth Holt, ed., From the classicists to the impressionists; a documentary history of art and architecture in the 19th century, Anchor Books (Garden City, NY, 1966), p. 6
  • Ingres: Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Drawings, Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1967), no. 107, pp. 243-245, repr.
  • Ebria Feinblatt, "An Ingres Drawing for Los Angeles", Connoisseur (April 1969), 170, pp. 262, 265, fig. 6
  • Marjorie B. Cohn, "The Original Format of Ingres Portrait Drawings", Colloque Ingres, Dupin (Montauban, France, 1969), pp. [16] (fig. 1), 17
  • Seymour Simmons, III and Mark S. A. Winer, Drawing: the Creative Process, Prentice-Hall, Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1977), p. 18, repr. fig. 1.1
  • Hans Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres (Bern, Switzerland, 1978), vol. 1, p. 22; vol. 3, pp. 506, 512-13; vol. 5, pp. 362-364, no. 440, repr.
  • Daniel Ternois, Ingres, Editions Nathan (Paris, France, 1980), pg. 104
  • Avigdor Arikha, Ingres, dessins sur le vif: cinquante-deux dessins du Musée Ingres de Montauban, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon (Dijon, France, 1981), p. 11
  • Ingres et Delacroix: Dessins et aquarelles, exh. cat., Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon (Ghent, 1986), pg. 35, repr. pg. 36
  • Avigdor Arikha, J. A. D. Ingres: Fifty Life Drawings from the Musée Ingres at Montauban, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Houston, TX, 1986), pg. 5
  • Joshua C. Taylor, ed., Nineteenth-Century Theories of Art, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA, 1987), p. 208, ill.
  • Avigdor Arikha, Peinture et regard: ecrits sur l'art 1965-1990, Hermann (Paris, France, 1991), p. 159
  • [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. fig. 207
  • Georges Vigne, Ingres, Citadelles & Mazenod and Abbeville Press (Paris, France; New York, NY, 1995), pg. 321, n. 4
  • Avigdor Arikha, On depiction: selected writings on art, 1965-94, Bellew (London, England, 1995), p. 162
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 252, repr.
  • Daniel Ternois, Ingres: Monsieur Bertin, Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1998), repr. fig. 4
  • Valérie Bajou, Monsieur Ingres, Editions Adam Biro (Paris, France, 1999), pg. 328
  • Gary Tinterow and Philip Conisbee, Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1999), p. 515 n.
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), cat. no. 77, repr. (color)
  • Vincent Pomarède, Stéphane Guégan, Louis-Antoine Prat, and Eric Bertin, Ingres 1780-1867, exh. cat., Editions Gallimard (Paris, France, 2006), ill. 32, p. 62
  • Paul-Louis Roubert, L'image sans qualités: Les beaux-arts et la critique à l'épreuve de la photographie: 1839-1859, Monum (Paris, France, 2006), p. 146, repr.
  • Susan L. Siegfried, Ingres: Painting Reimagined, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, 2009), pp. 207-208, repr. in b/w p. 207 as fig. 116
  • Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 28, repr. p. 28 as fig. 40

Exhibition History

  • Dessins [d'Ingres] tirés de collections d'amateurs (2nd series)., Salon des Arts-Unis, Galerie Martinet, Paris, 01/01/1861 - 01/01/1861
  • Portraits des écrivains et journalistes du siècles (1793-1892), Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 01/01/1893 - 12/31/1893
  • Exposition Ingres, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 04/26/1911 - 05/14/1911
  • Exposition Ingres, Chambre Syndicale de la Curiosité et des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 05/08/1921 - 06/05/1921
  • Exposition de portraits par Ingres et ses élèves, Jacques Seligmann et Fils, Paris, 03/01/1934 - 04/30/1934
  • 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
  • Ingres Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/12/1967 - 04/09/1967
  • Works by J.-A.-D. Ingres in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/17/1980 - 12/07/1980
  • A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004

Verification Level

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