1943.376: The Dream of Ossian

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.376

People

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)

Title

The Dream of Ossian

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1832-1834

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298092

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor, white gouache, and brown ink over graphite and partial stylus outlining, on white wove paper

Dimensions

24.7 x 18.7 cm (9 3/4 x 7 3/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.376

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Ingres: Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Drawings, Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1967), no. 17, p. 248, repr.
• Marjorie B. Cohn and Susan L. Siegfried, Works by J. A. D. Ingres in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), pp. 104-7/cat. no. 35
• John Spike, "Ingres at the Fogg Art Museum", The Burlington Magazine (1981), vol. 123, no. 936, p. 190
• Annalisa Zanni, Ingres: catalogo completo dei dipinti, Cantini Editore (Florence, Italy, 1990), p. 62 (under cat. 45)
• 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. 62; repr. fig. 48
• 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. 4, 7, 9, 10, 17, 34
• Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 237, 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. 69, repr. (color)
• 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. 69, repr.
• Louis-Antoine Prat, Ingres, exh. cat., Musée du Louvre/5 Continents (Paris, 2004), p. 86, under cat. no. 35
• Pierre Rosenberg, Passion for Drawing: Poussin to Cézanne, Works from the Prat Collection, exh. cat., Art Services International (Alexandria, VA, 2004), under cat. no. 57, fig. 4
• Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 169
• Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 121-122, repr. p. 120 as fig. 2

Exhibition History

• Ingres Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/12/1967 - 04/09/1967
• The Age of Romanticism, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/15/1986 - 05/18/1986
• 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
• 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/25/2015 - 10/05/2015

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