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A drawing of three figures and a bull.

The drawing in watercolor and gouache on tracing paper depicts three figures and a bull. At center is a woman in a white garment with a red shawl seated side-saddle on the back of a white bull; one hand on the bull’s head and one on its back. The white bull is swimming toward the left of the page in a blue body of water; a fish, two crustaceans, and two urchins visible in the water beneath it. Behind the bull an angelic figure follows above the water, carrying an ornamented, fringed cloth. At the top right of the page are the silhouettes of mythical figures, a satyr and mermaid among them. At the far right of the page, behind the bull, is a man on the shore. He wears an ornamented white robe around his waist and left arm, and a laurel on his head. His right arm is outstretched, his hand atop a cane or walking staff.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.378
People
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)
Title
Rape of Europa
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1865
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298019

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite, with gum varnish, on tracing paper, laid down
Dimensions
30.1 x 42.5 cm (11 7/8 x 16 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Signed, graphite, l.l: "J. Ingres E.it sur un Trait de vase grec. 1865."
  • inscription: l.l: J Ingres fit. sur un trait de vase grec 1865
    l.c. Pline parle d'un tableau d'Antyphile qui represente Europe / Peut-être cette Composition est elle une imitation de cet ouvrage celebre / ou une autre de Pythagoras Peintre et Sculpteur.
    lr: Neptune couronné d'une feuille de Pin / il ordonne à la mer d'être calme.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sold by the artist to Étienne-François Haro, October 13, 1866; consigned by him the Ingres sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 27, 1867, no. 15 (Fr 1,700); purchased at that sale by Victor Baltard, Paris; his daughter Paule Arnould, Reims; her son P. Arnould, Paris; Arthur Bowen Davies, New York, possible in 1897; Ferargil Gallery, New York, February 1926; Stephen Carlton Clark, New York, not before February 1926; Edouard Jonas of Paris, Inc.; not before December 1928; acquired from him by Grenville L. Winthrop, April 1930; 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
1943.378
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • John Canaday, A Perfectly Beautiful Case of Ingrophilia in Cambridge, Mass., New York Times (New York, Sunday, February 19, 1967), p. D21
  • [Reproduction only], La chronique des arts et de la curiosité, La chronique des arts et de la curiosité, (Paris, April 28, 1867)., pg. 137, no. 15
  • 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. 268, no. 173
  • Henry Lapauze, Les dessins de J.-A.-D. Ingres du Musée de Montauban, J. E. Bulloz (Paris, France, 1901), pg, 250
  • Jules Momméja, Collection Ingres au Musée de Montauban, Inventaire General des richeses d'art de la France. Province, Monuments civils (1905), pg. 160 above no. 2188
  • Waldemar Déonna, "Ingres et l'imitation de l'antique", Pages d'Art (October and December 1921), pg. 315
  • Royal Cortissoz, "Ingres: A Fascinating Souvenir of His Last Phase", New York Herald Tribune (New York, February 21, 1926), pg. 10, repr.
  • under "List of Accessions and Loans", Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (December 1927), 22, no. 12, pg. 318
  • Royal Cortissoz, The Painter's Craft, Charles Scribner & Sons (New York; London, 1930), pp. 193-96
  • Agnes Mongan, "Drawings by Ingres in the Winthrop Collection", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (July-December 1944), ser. 6, 26, pp. 410-12, fig. 21
  • Norman Schlenoff, Ingres, ses sources littéraires, Presses Universitaires de France (Paris, France, 1956), pl. 35
  • Robert Rosenblum, The International Style of 1800: A Study in Linear Abstraction, Garland Publishers, Inc. (New York, (1956) 1976), pg. 168 n. 6
  • Martin Birnbaum, The Last Romantic (New York, NY, 1960), pg. 167
  • Hans Naef, "Parmi les gravures de la collection Ingres", Bulletin du Musée Ingres, Musée Ingres (Montauban, December 1965), 18, pg. 6
  • Ingres: Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Drawings, Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1967), no. 116, repr.
  • Emilio Radius and Ettore Camesasca, L'opera completa di Ingres, Rizzoli (Milan, Italy, 1968), pp. 118-19, no. 168, repr.
  • Daniel Ternois and Ettore Camesasca, Tout l'oeuvre peint d'Ingres (Paris, France, 1971), pp. 118-19, no. 169, repr.
  • Jon Whiteley, Ingres, Oresko Books Ltd. (London, England, 1977), pg. 87, no. 69, repr.
  • Sarah Symmons, Flaxman and Europe: The Outline Illustrations and their Influence, Garland (New York, NY and London, England, 1984), p. 179 n. 61
  • Siegfried Salzmann, Mythos Europa: Europa und der Stier im Zeitalter der Industriellen Zivilisation, exh. cat., Ellert & Richter (Hamburg, 1988), pp. 206-7; repr.
  • Dr. Christine Ekelhart-Reinwetter, J. A. D. Ingres 1780-1867: Zeichnungen und Olstudien aus dem musée Ingres, Montauban, Ferdinandeum/Albertina (Innsbruck/Vienna, Austria, 1991), p. 266; repr. fig. 113
  • 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. 94; repr. fig. 74
  • Georges Vigne, Dessins d'Ingres: Catalogue raisonné des dessins du musée de Montauban, Gallimard/Reunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1995), pg. 165, repr.
  • Georges Vigne, Ingres, Citadelles & Mazenod and Abbeville Press (Paris, France; New York, NY, 1995), pg. 319, fig. 280
  • 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, 7, 8, 9, 11, 15, 31
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 257, repr.
  • Eric Bussière, Michel Dumoulin and Gilbert Trausch, ed., Europa: The European Idea and Identity, from Ancient Greece to the 21st Century, Mercatorfonds (Antwerp, 2001), p. 212, repr. (color)
  • 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. 83, repr. (color)
  • 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. 83, repr.
  • Pascale Picard-Cajan, Ingres et l'antique: le laboratoire secret, Musée Ingres (Montauban, 2006), p. 54, repr. p. 55 (color)
  • Pascale Picard-Cajan, Ingres et l'antique: l'illusion grecque, exh. cat., Actes Sud (Arles, 2006), p. 195, ill. 40 (color)
  • Lilas Sharifzadeh, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Variations sur un thème. La Grande Odalisque Découverte d'une réplique autographe, exh. cat., Galerie Hubert Duchemin (Paris, 2013), p. 42; repr. in color as ill. 23, p. 43

Exhibition History

  • General loan, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 11/24/1927 - 12/05/1928
  • 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 and Degas: Two Classical Draughtsmen, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/24/1961 - 05/20/1961
  • 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, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery, London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
  • Around Antique: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs (Teaching Gallery) S421, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/14/2010 - 09/04/2010

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