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A portrait of a woman.

The drawing in black chalk on cream paper depicts a woman center page, cropped beneath the shoulders. Her face is turned at three quarters to the right of the page, her gaze straight. She wears a dark collared blouse tied at the neck, and a striped cloth over her hair, beneath which several dark locks are visible. There is written script at the bottom left.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.844
People
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)
Title
Portrait of a Young Woman
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Portrait of a Young Woman Wearing a Smock and a Kerchief
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1804
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297533

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk with extensive stumping on cream wove paper.
Dimensions
actual: 39.8 x 32 cm (15 11/16 x 12 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Given by the artist to Luigi Calamatta; his sale, [Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 18-19, 1871 (Lugt 1921, no. 1717)];* Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Paris; his sale, [Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, March 26-27, 1918, no. 214, illus. (Fr 2,600)]; purchased at that sale by (?) Vauchin; [Galerie Férault, Paris, by 1930]; acquired from them through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, April 1936 (Fr 15,000); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

*Naef** (vol. 4 [1977], pg. 52) identifies three possibilities for this lot: no. 129, sold for 55 francs; no. 134, shold for 160 francs (together with another sheet); and no. 135, sold for 200 francs. The Fogg literature has traditionally accepted the last.

**"Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres," 5 vols, Bern, 1977-80.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.844
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Royal Cortissoz, "Degas as a Collector of Other Men: A First View of His Treasures, Presently to Be Sold in Paris - Ingres, Delacroix and the Impressionists.", New York Tribune (New York, February 24, 1918), section 3, p. 3, pg. 3
  • Agnes Mongan, "Drawings by Ingres in the Winthrop Collection", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (July-December 1944), ser. 6, 26, pg. 403
  • Martin Birnbaum, The Last Romantic (New York, NY, 1960), pg. 189
  • Agnes Mongan, "Hommage à Ingres", L'oeil (September 1967), nos. 151-53, pp. 24 (fig. 1), 27
  • Hans Naef, "Ingres et les demoiselles Harvey", Bulletin du Musée Ingres, Société des amis du Musée Ingres (Montauban, December 1967), no. 22, pg. 9
  • "Ingres, a Gala Opening at the Fogg", Harvard Alumni Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, March 11, 1967), pg. 22
  • Ingres: Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Drawings, Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1967), no. 4, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan, "Ingres as a Great Portrait Draughtsman", Colloque Ingres, ed. Mathieu Méras and Alan Godeau, Amis du Musée Ingres (Montauban, 1969), pp. 134-50, pp. 138-39, fig. 3, repr.
  • Hans Naef, "Révoil dessiné par Ingres", Bulletin du Musée Ingres, Société des amis du Musée Ingres (Montauban, December 1972), no. 32, pg. 5
  • Phyllis Hattis, Ingres' Sculptural Style: A Group of Unknown Drawings, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1973), pp. 22, 23 (fig. 13), 24
  • Hans Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres (Bern, Switzerland, 1978), vol. 4 (1977), pp. 52-53, no. 29, repr.
  • Daniel Ternois, Ingres, Editions Nathan (Paris, France, 1980), pg. 18
  • Gaetan Picon, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Quai des Celestins, 4 (New York, NY, 1980), pg. 34, repro.
  • John Spike, "Ingres at the Fogg Art Museum", The Burlington Magazine (1981), vol. 123, no. 936, pg. 190
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 207, repr.
  • 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), vol. 1, pp. 16, 305, 306, fig. 390; vol. 2, pg. 76, no. 688, repro.
  • Colta Ives, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas: A Summary Catalogue, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1997), no. 668, repr.
  • 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. 49, 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. 49, repr.
  • L'Empire à Fontainebleau, auct. cat. (Paris, April 10, 2016), pp. 105-106, repr. p. 105, fig. 4

Exhibition History

  • Exposition de dessins et quelques peintures du XVe au XVIIIe siècle, Galerie Fèrault, Paris, 12/08/1930 - 12/20/1930
  • 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

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