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A portrait of a standing man.

The drawing in graphite on off-white paper depicts a man standing center-page, facing the viewer and looking to the left of the page. He wears a dark, open jacket and light waistcoat and trousers that wrap around his boots. He wears spurs and holds a riding crop in his left hand, his right hand resting on his hip. Above a high collar he wears a mustache and tall top hat.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.847
People
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)
Title
Portrait of Count Rodolphe Apponyi
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Portrait of Count Antoine Apponyi
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1823
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297621

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite and white chalk on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
45.3 x 34.6 cm (17 13/16 x 13 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Albert Goupil, Paris, by 1867; Baron Joseph Vitta, Paris, by 1911; Scott and Fowles, New York; acquired from them by Grenville L. Winthrop, September 1925 ($3,500); 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
1943.847
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Charles Blanc, Ingres, sa vie et ses ouvrages, Vve. J. Renouard (Paris, France, 1870), pg. 240 (as "Portrait d'homme en pied," coll. Albert Goupil)
  • Agnes Mongan, "Drawings by Ingres in the Winthrop Collection", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (July-December 1944), ser. 6, 26, pp.. 398, 399, fig. 9 (as "Young Man in a Top Hat")
  • "The Winthrop Art Collection", Harvard Alumni Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, January 8, 1944), XLVI, pg. 210, repro.
  • Jean Cassou, Ingres, Editions de la Connaissance (Brussels, Belgium, 1947), pl. 37
  • Agnes Mongan, Ingres: 24 Drawings, Pantheon Books (New York, 1947), no. 17, repro. (as "Florentine Cavalier")
  • Pierre Labrouche, The Drawings of Ingres, Zwemmer (London, 1950), pl. 6
  • Martin Birnbaum, The Last Romantic (New York, NY, 1960), pg. 189 (as "Gentleman in a silk hat")
  • Agnes Mongan, "Hommage à Ingres", L'oeil (September 1967), nos. 151-53, pp. 25, fig. 3, 29
  • Norman Schlenoff, "Ingres Centennial at the Fogg Museum", The Burlington Magazine (1967), vol. CIX, pg. 379, fig. 63
  • Hans Naef, "L'exposition Ingres du Musée Fogg, 12 Févier-9 Avril 1967", Bulletin du Musée Ingres (Montauban, France, July 1967), 21, pg. 6, n. 1
  • Ingres: Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Drawings, Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1967), no. 56, p. 245, repr.
  • Emilio Radius and Ettore Camesasca, L'opera completa di Ingres, Rizzoli (Milan, Italy, 1968), pg. 124, repro.
  • 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. 146, 156, fig. 25, repr.
  • Hans Naef, "Ingres to M. Leblanc, an Unpublished Letter", Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (New York, NY, December 1970), 29, pp. 183, 184 (under "Notes")
  • Daniel Ternois and Ettore Camesasca, Tout l'oeuvre peint d'Ingres (Paris, France, 1971), pg. 124, repro.
  • Evelyne Pansu, Ingres Dessins, Chene (Paris, France, 1977), no. 48, repro.
  • Hans Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres (Bern, Switzerland, 1978), vol. 2, pp. 449-54, fig. 2; vol. 5, pp. 48-49, no. 274, repro.
  • Gaetan Picon, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Quai des Celestins, 4 (New York, NY, 1980), pg. 81, repro.
  • Leo van Witsen, Costuming for Opera, Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN, 1981), repr. p. 122
  • Ingres et Delacroix: Dessins et aquarelles, exh. cat., Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon (Ghent, 1986), pp. 31, 33, figl. 10
  • Leo van Witsen, Costuming for opera: who wears what and why, Scarecrow Press (Metuchen, NJ, 1994), repr. vol. 1 p. 122
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 228, 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. 63, repr. (color), p. 24
  • 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. 63, repr.

Exhibition History

  • 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
  • Exposition Ingres, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 04/26/1911 - 05/14/1911
  • Exposition Ingres, Chambre Syndicale de la Curiosité et des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 05/08/1921 - 06/05/1921
  • 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 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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