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A drawing of figures and two figures seated on a couch and a third figure kneeling with a serving tray.

The drawing in graphite on tracing paper depicts three figures in roughly contoured detail. On the right is a nude female figure kneeling, holding a serving tray with a cup at chest height. At the center is a nude female figure reclining on a couch, her arms up and around her head. On page left is a nude female figure seated on the same couch, reaching for the cup on the right figure’s serving tray.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1986.607
People
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)
Title
Study for "The Bather"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1851
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295080

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite, squared, on tracing paper
Dimensions
8.6 x 11 cm (3 3/8 x 4 5/16 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
1986.607
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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