A drawing depicts a man standing, holding a loosely draped garment to his chest.
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The drawing depicts a man pressing a loose garment to his left breast. The man’s face is in profile to the right, and his right shoulder and arm are uncovered. The draped garment is depicted in greater detail than the figure, with suggestions of light and shadow in white and black chalk. The sleeve falling from his left arm has suggestions of woven detail along the hanging hem. Behind the primary figure toward the upper right of the page is a less detailed figure in a similar position, the drapery slightly changed.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.179
People
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)
Title
Studies of Drapery for the Figure of Virgil in "The Apotheosis of Homer"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1827
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297603

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk, graphite, and white chalk on tan wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 39.3 x 27.3 cm (15 1/2 x 10 3/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser
Accession Year
1932
Object Number
1932.179
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. 703, fig. 374
  • Ingres: Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Drawings, Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1967), no. 58, p. 248, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 232, repr.
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 119 ("Cartella con quattro stelle nere")
  • Theresa Smith, "Historical Bleaching of Ingres Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum", The Book and Paper Group Annual (2008), vol. 27, pp. 89-96, p. 91-92, repr. p. 92 as figs. 8 and 9
  • Theresa Smith, "Notes toward a History of Paper Conservation at the Fogg Art Museum and Rutherford John Gettens' Bleaching Notebook, 1951-1952" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, November 2008), Unpublished, passim
  • Francesca Bewer, A Laboratory for Art: Harvard's Fogg Museum and the Emergence of Conservation in America, 1900-1950, Harvard Art Museum and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA, 2010), pp. 244-245, fig. 5.16

Exhibition History

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

Verification Level

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