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A drawing of standing nude female figure and a seated figure with a tambourine.

The drawing in graphite on tracing paper depicts two figures rendered in sparse contour under a grid. On the upper left of the page is a figures arm reaching up, visible only from the elbow. To the right and beneath the arm in a seated figure in a sleeved robe and tall hat holding a tambourine. On the right of the page is a nude female figure standing on her toes and twisting her arms above her head in a suggestion of dance.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1986.606
People
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)
Title
Study for "The Bather"(Tambourine Player and Dancer)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1851
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294505

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite, squared, on tracing paper
Dimensions
13.2 x 7 cm (5 3/16 x 2 3/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of John Rewald in honor of Agnes Mongan
Accession Year
1986
Object Number
1986.606
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), Appendix B, p. 294

Exhibition History

  • Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) HAA171x Exoticism and Orientalism, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 02/05/2009 - 05/03/2009

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