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A man in white robes stands at the center of a crowd before a wall.

The image in graphite on white paper depicts a crowd outside a stone wall ornamented with statues. A man in white robes stands at the center the crowd beside a fallen censer. The man’s arms are spread wide, a halo rendered behind his head. He looks up and left, toward a woman at the top of the wall. The woman reaches out toward the robed man, held back by two people behind her. Behind the robed man at center is a column of armored men on horses, the lead rider pointing his finger forward. To either side of the column of riders are large crowds of people being pushed apart by the riders.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.845
People
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)
Title
The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorien
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1858
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297620

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite, gray wash, and white gouache over partial stylus outlining on white modern laid paper
Dimensions
47.9 × 40.5 cm (18 7/8 × 15 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Unidentified sale, Paris, 1860; Galerie Francis Petit, Paris; Isaac Pereire, Paris, by 1864; Galerie [Emile and Isaac] Pereire sale, Paris, March 6-9, 1872, no. 27 (Fr 9,100); a "French Collector"; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 31, 1914, no. 14 (fr 4,010); (?) Schoeller; Scott and Fowles, New York, acquired through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, October 15, 1920 ($7,500); 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
1943.845
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Theophile Gautier, "Exposition de tableaux modernes au profit de la caisse de secours des artistes peintres, statuaires, architectes", Gazette des beaux-arts (Paris, March 15, 1860), 5, pp. 323-24
  • Émile Perrin, "Raffet de Decamps", Revue européene (1860), 11, pp. 860-61
  • Emile Galichon, "Descriptions des dessins de M. Ingres exposés au Salon des Arts-Unis", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (March 15, 1861), vol. IX, no. 6, pg. 346
  • W. Bürger [Théophile Thoré], "Les cabinets d'amateurs è Paris: Galerie de MM", Gazette des beaux-arts (March 1, 1864), 16, no. 3, pg. 199
  • Charles Blanc, Ingres, sa vie et ses ouvrages, Vve. J. Renouard (Paris, France, 1870), pg. 241
  • Henri, Vicomte Delaborde, Ingres, sa vie, ses travaux, sa doctrine, d'apres les notices manuscrites et les lettres du maitre, H. Plon (Paris, France, 1870), pg. 268, no. 171
  • Edouard Gatteaux, Collection des 120 dessins, croquis et peintures de M. Ingres classés et mis en ordre par son ami Edouard Gatteaux, A. Guerinet (Paris, 1873), pl. 1
  • Edouard Gatteaux, Dessins, croquis et peintures de M. Ingres de la Collection de Édouard Gateaux, du Musée National du Louvre et l'École Nationale des Beaux-Arts à Paris (Paris, France, 1873?)
  • Edouard Gatteaux, Collection des 120 dessins, croquis et peintures de M. Ingres classés et mis en ordre par son ami Edouard Gatteaux, A. Guerinet (Paris, France, 1875), pl. 1
  • Henry Lapauze, Les dessins de J.-A.-D. Ingres du Musée de Montauban, J. E. Bulloz (Paris, France, 1901), pg. 250
  • Henry Lapauze, "Le 'Bain Turc' d'Ingres", Revue de l'art ancien et moderne (1905), vol. XVIII, pg. 388
  • Henry Lapauze, Ingres, sa vie & son oeuvre, G. Petit (Paris, France, 1911), pg. 512
  • Martin Birnbaum, John Singer Sargent, January 12, 1856-April 15, 1925: A Conversation, William E. Rudge's Sons (New York, NY, 1941), pp. 14-15
  • Agnes Mongan, "Drawings by Ingres in the Winthrop Collection", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (July-December 1944), ser. 6, 26, pg. 411
  • Norman Schlenoff, Ingres, ses sources littéraires, Presses Universitaires de France (Paris, France, 1956), pl. 30 facing pg. 225
  • Martin Birnbaum, The Last Romantic (New York, NY, 1960), p. 187
  • Dario Durbé, J. A. Dominique Ingres, Fabbri (Milan, 1965), fig. 2
  • Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), under no. 44
  • Ingres, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1967), pg. 226, under no. 161
  • Emilio Radius and Ettore Camesasca, L'opera completa di Ingres, Rizzoli (Milan, Italy, 1968), pg. 106, under no. 127
  • Daniel Ternois and Ettore Camesasca, Tout l'oeuvre peint d'Ingres (Paris, France, 1971), pg. 106, under no. 128
  • Dewey F. Mosby, "Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps 1803-1860" (Thesis, Harvard University, 1977), Garland Publishing, Inc., vol. 1, pp. 10, 282, nn. 41, 42
  • Daniel Ternois, Ingres, Editions Nathan (Paris, France, 1980), pg. 79
  • John Spike, "Ingres at the Fogg Art Museum", The Burlington Magazine (1981), vol. 123, no. 936, p. 190
  • Patricia Condon, In Pursuit of Perfection: The Art of J.-A.-D. Ingres, exh. cat., Speed Art Museum (Louisville, KY, 1983), pp. 25 repr., 248-49, 251
  • Avigdor Arikha, J. A. D. Ingres: Fifty Life Drawings from the Musée Ingres at Montauban, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Houston, TX, 1986), pg. 73
  • Sale catalogue, auct. cat., Sotheby's, New York (May 22, 1986), under no. 6
  • 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. 80; repr. fig. 61
  • 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. 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 23
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 254, repr.
  • Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat., Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO, 1996), pp. 192-93, under no. 61, fig. 6
  • Daniel Ternois, ed., Lettres d'Ingres à Marcotte d'Argenteuil, Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français (Nogent-le-Roi, France, 1999), pp. 174-176, under no. 105 (cf. pp. 153 [no. 1], 254, 258)
  • 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. 79, repr. (color), p. 26
  • 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. 79, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Tableaux de l'ecole française, 26, Boulevard des Italiens, 01/01/1860 - 12/31/1860
  • Dessins [d'Ingres] tirés de collections d'amateurs (2nd series)., Salon des Arts-Unis, Galerie Martinet, Paris, 01/01/1861 - 01/01/1861
  • Tableaux, etudes peintes, dessins et croquis de J.-A.-D. Ingres peintre d'histoire, sénateur, membre de l'Institut, École Impériale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 04/10/1867 - 12/31/1867
  • 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
  • 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 08 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/23/2008 - 11/16/2008
  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 09 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/16/2009 - 11/08/2009

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