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A portrait of a man in profile.

The drawing in graphite on white paper depicts a man in profile, looking to the left of the page. He wears a high collared jacket sparsely suggested beneath the shoulders. The artist’s signature is written on the right center of the page.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.846
People
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)
Title
Portrait of Guillaume Guillon Lethière
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1811
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297534

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on white wove paper.
Dimensions
actual: 22.4 x 16.5 cm (8 13/16 x 6 1/2 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.846
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. 19, p. 243, 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, p. 142, fig. 7, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 211, repr.
  • Rhoda Eitel-Porter and Cara Dufour Denison, From Leonardo to Pollock: Master Drawings from the Morgan Library, exh. cat., The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, 2006), under no. 85, fig. 1

Exhibition History

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

Verification Level

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