A drawing of a woman seated for a portrait in a long dress.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The drawing in graphite on white paper depicts a woman seated for a portrait, facing left page, her gaze directed at the viewer. Her left arm rests across her waist, and her right hand holds her chin. She wears a long dress with sleeves ending in voluminous spills of lace, and a frilled bonnet tied under her chin holds back dark, straight hair. She sits in a side chair, and a table with a book atop it is to her right.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1954.110
People
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)
Title
Portrait of Mme Delphine Ingres
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1855
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294157

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on white wove paper, laid down
Dimensions
35 x 27.2 cm (13 3/4 x 10 11/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles E. Dunlap
Accession Year
1954
Object Number
1954.110
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ingres: Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Drawings, Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1967), no. 104, pp. 245-246, repr.
  • Uwe Fleckner, Abbild und Abstraktion: die Kunst des Porträts im Werk von J.-A.-D. Ingres, Verlag Philipp von Zabern (Mainz, Germany, 1995), p. 120, fig. 40
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 250, repr.
  • Ann Dumas and Colta Ives, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1997), p. 144, fig. 185
  • Edward Saywell, "Guide to Drawing Terms and Techniques", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 30-39, p. 37 under "Squaring"
  • Aileen Ribeiro, Ingres in Fashion: Representations of Dress and Appearance in Ingres's Images of Women, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1999), pp. 48, 173, pl. 139
  • Valérie Bajou, Monsieur Ingres, Editions Adam Biro (Paris, France, 1999), p. 326
  • Gary Tinterow and Philip Conisbee, Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1999), cat. no. 159, repr. (color)
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., "To Delight the Eye": French Drawings and Paintings from the Collection of Charles E. Dunlap, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 2005), no. 13
  • Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 189, repr. p. 189 as fig. 429

Exhibition History

  • Ingres Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/12/1967 - 04/09/1967
  • Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch, National Gallery, London, 01/27/1999 - 04/25/1999; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 05/23/1999 - 08/22/1999; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/05/1999 - 01/02/2000
  • "To Delight the Eye": French Drawings and Paintings from the Collection of Charles E. Dunlap, Fogg Museum, Cambridge, 12/17/2005 - 03/12/2006
  • 32Q: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/13/2016 - 05/03/2016

Verification Level

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