1943.859: Roger Freeing Angelica

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.859

People

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)

Title

Roger Freeing Angelica

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Roger Delivering Angelica

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1818

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297354

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite, squared, on white wove paper

Dimensions

17.1 x 19.7 cm (6 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Fernand Guille, nephew of the artist; purchased from him by Edgar Degas; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, March 26-27, 1918, no. 213 (Fr 3,200); purchased at that sale by Bernheim Jeune, Paris; Scott and Fowles, New York; acquired from them by Grenville L. Winthrop, December 23, 1924 ($1,200); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.859

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Agnes Mongan, "Drawings by Ingres in the Winthrop Collection", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (July-December 1944), ser. 6, 26, pg. 404
• Agnes Mongan, Ingres: 24 Drawings, Pantheon Books (New York, 1947), no. 14, repro.
• Horace Shipp, "Ingres and the Angelica Theme", Apollo (January 1956), 63, pg. 38
• Daniel Ternois, Inventaire des collections publiques francaises, 11, Montauban, Musee Ingres, peintures, Ingres et son temps., Editions des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1965), under no. 160
• Waldemar George, Dessins d'Ingres, Editions du Columbier/A. Michel (Paris, 1967), pg. 49, repro.
• Ingres, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1967), pg. 152, under no. 107
• Ingres: Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Drawings, Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1967), no. 52, p. 247, repr.
• Emilio Radius and Ettore Camesasca, L'opera completa di Ingres, Rizzoli (Milan, Italy, 1968), pg. 99, under no. 99a
• Martin Davies, French School: Early 19th Century, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, etc., National Gallery of Art (London, England, 1970), pg. 119
• Daniel Ternois and Ettore Camesasca, Tout l'oeuvre peint d'Ingres (Paris, France, 1971), pg. 99, under no. 100a
• Evelyne Pansu, Ingres Dessins, Chene (Paris, France, 1977), no. 44, repro.
• Ingres: Drawings from the Musée Ingres at Montauban and Other Collections, exh. cat., Victoria and Albert Museum (London, England, 1979), pg. 37
• Gaetan Picon, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Quai des Celestins, 4 (New York, NY, 1980), pg. 52, repro.
• Patricia Condon, In Pursuit of Perfection: The Art of J.-A.-D. Ingres, exh. cat., Speed Art Museum (Louisville, KY, 1983), pp. 94, fig. 2, 243, 246, 248-50, 252, 254
• Patricia Condon, "Les Dessins Historiques achevés de J.A.D. Ingres" (part one), Bulletin du Musée Ingres, Amis du Musée Ingres (Montauban, France, 1995), no. 67/68, pp. 3-86, cat. 41; repr. fig. 30
• Patricia Condon, "Les Dessins Historiques achevés de J.A.D. Ingres" (part two), Bulletin du Musée Ingres, Amis du Musée Ingres (Montauban, France, 1996), no. 69, pp. 3-38, pp. 4, 8, 10
• Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 225, repr.
• Ann Dumas, Degas as a Collector, Apollo Magazine in assoc. with National Gallery Publications (London, England, 1996), p. 24; repr. fig. 20
• Ann Dumas and Colta Ives, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1997), p. 147, fig. 192
• Colta Ives, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas: A Summary Catalogue, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1997), no. 667, repr.
• Susan L. Siegfried, "The Imperatives of Drawing in Ingres's Art", ed. Margret Stuffmann, Walther König (Cologne, 2001), p. 82, fig. 13
• 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), cat. no. 61, repr. (color)
• 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), no. 61, repr.
• Susan L. Siegfried, Ingres: Painting Reimagined, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, 2009), pp. 46, 49, repr. in b/w p. 47 as fig. 14
• H. Harvard Arnason and Elizabeth Mansfield, History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography, Pearson Education, Inc. (Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2013), repr. as fig. 1.6 on p. 8

Exhibition History

• Chinese sculpture, bronzes, jades, paintings and drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art : selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/01/1943 - 02/28/1944
• Ingres and Degas: Two Classical Draughtsmen, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/24/1961 - 05/20/1961
• Ingres Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/12/1967 - 04/09/1967
• Works by J.-A.-D. Ingres in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/17/1980 - 12/07/1980
• A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery, London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
• HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 11 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 10/07/2011 - 11/05/2011

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