A drawing of a city of low buildings with tile roofs.
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The drawing in graphite on white paper depicts a city of low buildings with tile roofs. At the left of the page is a four story villa atop a prominent hill. The villa has windows with shutters and a tile roof topped by paired cupolas. A series of walls connect to the villa on the bottom left of the page. To the right of the villa the city sweeps between the hill and a mountain range behind, its architectural motifs reflecting that of the villa, though some buildings are much longer with several prominent towers. A river or promenade cuts between buildings on the right.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1961.9
People
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)
Title
View of the Villa Medici, Rome; verso: Sketches of a basin and the capital and base of a column
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1807
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296907

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on white wove paper
Dimensions
12 x 20 cm (4 3/4 x 7 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John S. Newberry, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1961, inv. no. 1961.9

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of John S. Newberry in memory of Meta P. Sachs
Accession Year
1961
Object Number
1961.9
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ingres: Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Drawings, Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1967), no. 7, p. 249, repr.
  • [Eugéne-Emmanuel Pineu-Duval] Amaury-Duval, L'Atelier d'Ingres: Edition critique de l'ouvrage publié à Paris en 1878, ed. Daniel Ternois, Arthena (Paris, France, 1993), fig. 14
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 208, repr.
  • Valérie Bajou, Monsieur Ingres, Editions Adam Biro (Paris, France, 1999), repr. fig. 52
  • Gary Tinterow and Philip Conisbee, Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1999), fig. 79, pp. 97, 103
  • Uwe Fleckner, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780-1867, Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft (Cologne, Germany, 2000), p. 38, fig. 35 (color)
  • Uwe Fleckner, "Porträt und Vedute Strategien der Wirklichkeitsaneignung in den römischen Zeichnungen von Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres", ed. Margret Stuffmann, Walther König (Cologne, 2001), p. 167, fig. 5
  • Olivier Bonfait, ed., Maestà di Roma da Napoleone all'unità d'Italia: D'Ingres à Degas, les artistes français à Rome, exh. cat., Electa (Milan, 2003), p. 154, fig. 3
  • Vincent Pomarède, Stéphane Guégan, Louis-Antoine Prat, and Eric Bertin, Ingres 1780-1867, exh. cat., Editions Gallimard (Paris, France, 2006), ill. 48, p. 81

Exhibition History

  • Ingres Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/12/1967 - 04/09/1967

Verification Level

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