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A drawing of a woman standing in a long dress.

The drawing in graphite on white paper depicts a woman standing in three quarters facing left page, her head turned toward the viewer. Her head, face, and arms are rendered only by contour lines; the dress in greater detail. She wears her hair back with a center part, and a long dress with voluminous drapery. She leans against a mantle or sideboard; her right hand is across her waist grasping her skirt, and her chin rests on her left hand, the index finger drawn across her jawline. There is written script on the right of the page.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.295
People
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)
Title
Study for the Portrait of Madame Othenin d'Haussonville; verso: Unfinished sketch of same subject
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1842-1845
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296774

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and graphite on white wove paper
Dimensions
35.9 × 20.4 cm (14 1/8 × 8 1/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.295
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. 705, fig. 376
  • Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum..., brochure, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1941), checklist no. 45
  • Ingres in American Collections: Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Lighthouse, New York Association for the Blind, exh. cat., Paul Rosenberg and Co. (New York, 1961), no. 56, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 46, repr.
  • Ingres: Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Drawings, Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1967), no. 86, pp. 246-248, repr.
  • John Spike, "Ingres at the Fogg Art Museum", The Burlington Magazine (1981), vol. 123, no. 936, p. 190
  • [Reproduction only], Exposé (Essays from the Harvard Expository Writing Program), Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1993 - 1994)., repr. p. 40
  • Catherine Golden and Mary Ann Foley, "Visualization as a Guide for Composing", Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal (June 1994), vol. VI, no. 2, p. 199, fig. 2
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 243, repr.
  • Aileen Ribeiro, Ingres in Fashion: Representations of Dress and Appearance in Ingres's Images of Women, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1999), p. 146, pl. 118
  • Gary Tinterow and Philip Conisbee, Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1999), cat. no. 127, repr. (color)
  • Dominique Radrizzani, Dessins français: Collection du Cabinet des dessins du Musée d'art et d'histoire Genève, exh. cat., Somogy Editions d'Art / Musée d'art et d'histoire (Paris/Geneva, 2004), under cat. no. 59, fig. 2
  • Mark G. Mitchell, "Learning from the Masters: Ingres' Miraculous Lines", Drawing (American Artist) (Winter 2007), pp. 42-57, repr. p. 54
  • Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 188
  • William A. Berry, Drawing the Human Form: Methods, Sources, Concepts, third edition, 2024, pp. 351-353, repr. as fig. 8-22

Exhibition History

  • Masterpieces of 19th and 20th Century French Drawing from the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University and the Museum of Modern Art of New York City, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/01/1941 - 06/01/1941
  • Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
  • Ingres in American Collections: Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Lighthouse, New York Association for the Blind, Paul Rosenberg and Co.
  • Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
  • Ingres Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/12/1967 - 04/09/1967
  • Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/05/1999 - 01/02/2000
  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/11/2015 - 09/02/2015

Verification Level

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