A drawing of a left hand.
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The drawing in graphite on tracing paper depicts a left hand, the cuff of a garment and wrist at the top of the page and the fingers falling loosely to the bottom. There is written script at the top left of the image, as well additional script and a stamp in the lower right.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.850
People
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)
Title
Study for the Left Hand of Comte Louis-Mathieu Molé
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1834
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297680

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite and white chalk on tracing paper, laid down
Dimensions
17.8 x 21.5 cm (7 x 8 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sold by the artist to Étienne-François Haro; consigned by him to the Ingres sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 6-7, 1867 (Lugt 1921, no. 1241), no. 84 (Fr 790); (?) Thibaudeau (or Thibaudot); Henry Lehmann; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 2-3, 1883; no. 201; comtesse de Béhague, Paris; her daughter, comtesse de Béarn; acquired from her through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, May-June 1931 (Fr 27,500 for 1943.850-1943.853); 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
1943.850
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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
  • Henry Lapauze, Ingres, sa vie & son oeuvre, G. Petit (Paris, France, 1911), repro. pg. 315
  • Agnes Mongan, "Drawings by Ingres in the Winthrop Collection", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (July-December 1944), ser. 6, 26, pp. 402-3
  • Jacques Mathey, Ingres, Olivir Lesourd (Paris, 1945), pg. 17
  • Arthur Millier, The Drawings of Ingres, Zwemmer (London, 1955), pl. 35
  • Daniel Ternois, Les dessins d'Ingres au Musée de Montauban: les portraits, Les Presses Artistique (Paris, France, 1959), above no. 129
  • Martin Birnbaum, The Last Romantic (New York, NY, 1960), pg. 191
  • Agnes Mongan, Great Drawings of All Time, ed. Ira Moskowitz and Victoria Thorson, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), cat. no. 722, n.p., repr.
  • Ingres: Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Drawings, Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1967), no. 74, pp. 247-249, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 238, 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. 66, repr. (color)

Exhibition History

  • 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
  • Studies and Study Sheets, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/26/1964 - 04/18/1964
  • 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, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004

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