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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.250
People
Unidentified Artist
Previously attributed to Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)
Title
Portrait of a Man
Other Titles
Former Title: Portrait of an Unknown Man
Former Title: Portrait of a Man in a Black Felt Hat
Former Title: Portrait of a Young Man with a Top Hat
Former Title: Portrait of a Young Man Wearing a Large Black Hat
Former Title: Portrait of a Man Wearing Large Black Hat and Red and White Scarf
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1800
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230198

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
75 x 60.8 cm (29 1/2 x 23 15/16 in.)
frame: 98 x 84 x 8.8 cm (38 9/16 x 33 1/16 x 3 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: on back of frame, in white chalk: ? INGRES

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Dr. Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Lausanne, sold; [to Seligmann et Fils, Paris (1933)], sold [through Jacques Seligmann & Co, New York]; to Grenville L. Winthrop (1935), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Notes:
Winthrop paid $26,000

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.250
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • [Unidentified article], Photomonde (April 7, 1934)
  • [Unidentified article], Le Revue Mondiale (April 15, 1934)
  • [Unidentified article], Le Monde Illustré (Mar 31 1934)
  • [Unidentified article], Pantheon (May 1934)
  • [Unidentified article], The Times [London] (April 1, 1934)
  • [Unidentified article], Le Jour [Paris] (April 3, 1934)
  • Portraits par Ingres et ses élèves, exh. cat., Jacques Seligmann et Fils (Paris, France, 1934), no. 2
  • Doriece Colle, Collars, Stocks, Cravats: A History and Costume Dating Guide to civilian men's neckpieces, 1655-1900., Rodale Press, Inc. (Emmaus, PA, 1972), p. 160, repr. in b/w
  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Susan L. Siegfried, Works by J. A. D. Ingres in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), p. 174, B6, appendix B; text p. 11
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 108; repr. no. 258
  • 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), repr. in color p. 35, as fig. 36
  • 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), repr. in color p. 42, as fig. 35

Exhibition History

  • Exposition de portraits par Ingres et ses élèves, Jacques Seligmann et Fils, Paris, 03/01/1934 - 04/30/1934
  • Works by J.-A.-D. Ingres in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/17/1980 - 12/07/1980

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Verification Level

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