The drawing depicts a woman seated in an armchair.
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The drawing depicts a woman seated in an armchair. Her gaze is directed in three-quarter toward the left of the page. Her hair is pulled to a loose bun atop her head. She wears earrings and a gauzy dress with detailing on the bust, shoulders and high collared neckline. Her hands lay on her lap. The drapery falling down her legs is folded around the arm of the chair toward the seat, obscuring the front left leg of the chair which is closest to the viewer. The chair is composed of spare, geometric wooden ribs with fluting, with upholstery on the back and seat.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.43
People
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)
Title
Portrait of Princess Letizia Murat
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Portrait of a Lady Seated in an Armchair
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1813
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297973

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 26.1 x 17 cm (10 1/4 x 6 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Alexandre Bénard; his widow, later Baronne E.-C.-M.-D. de Pappenheim]; Alexandre Marcel (sale, Paris, Drouot, 8 Feb. 1886, no. 4); J.P. Heseltine (sale, London, Sotheby's, 27-29 May 1935, no. 277, repr.); Martin Birnbaum for Grenville L. Winthrop, May 1935; bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1942
Object Number
1942.43
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 217, repr.
  • 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. 94, repr. p. 94 as fig. 13
  • 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1951-1952" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, November 2008), Unpublished, passim

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