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A drawing of four figures in an interior, one standing and three seated.

The drawing in graphite on white paper depicts four figures in an interior. There is a suggestion of a column on the far left and mosaic motifs on the floor. The leftmost figure is rendered in sparse contoured detail, standing in profile facing right. They wear a long robe and hold a scroll out before them, their gaze directed to it. To the right of this figure is a highly decorated freestanding torch, rendered in much greater detail than the rest of the drawing. To the right of the torch is a woman, nude above the waist, reclining against a seated man. The seated man facing left is nude save for the suggestion of a cape. His left hand holds the arm of the reclining woman, and his right hand outstretched. Behind the reclining woman and seated man is a seated woman in gauzy robes and an ornamental headpiece, her arm over the back of her chair, looking at the reclining woman.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.299
People
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)
Title
Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1812
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296750

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite and gray wash, squared in graphite, on white wove paper
Dimensions
29.1 × 42.2 cm (11 7/16 × 16 5/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.299
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 700, fig. 371
  • Ingres: Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Drawings, Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1967), no. 20, pp. 246, 249, repr.
  • Sarah Whitfield, The Academic Tradition: An Exhibition of Nineteenth-century French Drawings, exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum (Bloomington, IN, 1968), no. 63
  • Patricia Condon, "Les Dessins Historiques achevés de J.A.D. Ingres" (part one), Bulletin du Musée Ingres, Amis du Musée Ingres (Montauban, France, 1995), no. 67/68, pp. 3-86, cat. 23; repr. fig. 16
  • Margaret Morgan Grasselli, ed., The touch of the artist: master drawings from the Woodner collections, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1995), repr. fig. 3 under cat. 103
  • Patricia Condon, "Les Dessins Historiques achevés de J.A.D. Ingres" (part two), Bulletin du Musée Ingres, Amis du Musée Ingres (Montauban, France, 1996), no. 69, pp. 3-38, pp. 4, 8, 9, 10
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 212, repr.
  • Susan L. Siegfried, Ingres: Painting Reimagined, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, 2009), pp. 59-60, repr. in b/w p. 59 as fig. 24
  • Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 169

Exhibition History

  • Ingres Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/12/1967 - 04/09/1967
  • The Academic Tradition: An Exhibition of Nineteenth-Century French Drawings arranged by the Indiana University Art Museum, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, 06/19/1968 - 08/11/1968
  • HAA 10 Survey Course: The Western Tradition, Art Since the Renaissance, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/08/2008 - 04/06/2008
  • 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

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