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A drawing of four figures under an archway.

The drawing in watercolor on tracing paper depicts four figures beneath an archway. The arch is white, vaulting over a red altar set with gold ornaments. At top center, just beneath the apex of the arch is a woman in blue and white robes with a halo, holding a baby also adorned with a halo. The baby gestures with his right hand downward at two figures standing beside the altar. At the bottom left of the page is a kneeling man in profile, looking up at the woman and child. He wears brown robes and a tonsure with a halo, holding a white flower to his chest. On the right of the altar is a man in gold armor trimmed in blue, holding a spear in his right hand and shield in his left. He has red hair and a halo, and his head is in profile looking up at the woman and child. Beneath the image in the margin of the page is script labeling the two bottom figures and the artist.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.375
People
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)
Title
The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saints Anthony of Padua and Leopold of Carinthia
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1855
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298149

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite, brown ink, watercolor and white gouache on tracing paper, laid down
Dimensions
actual: 26.4 x 18.7 cm (10 3/8 x 7 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.c., graphite: J Ingres fec.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Given by the artist to his wife, Mme Delphine Ingres, 1855; her sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 10, 1894, no. 97; (?) Max; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 11, 1917, no. 64 (Fr 7,600); acquired through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, october 1927 ($1,000); 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
1943.375
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. 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), no. 166
  • [Reproduction only], Gazette des beaux-arts, (Paris, 1877)., repr. facing pg. 323
  • Abbé Michel-Ulysse Maynard, La Sainte-Vièrge, Firmin Didot (Paris, 1877), repr. facing pg. 450
  • Henry Lapauze, Les dessins de J.-A.-D. Ingres du Musée de Montauban, J. E. Bulloz (Paris, France, 1901), pg. 149, cf. pg. 261
  • Jules Momméja, Collection Ingres au Musée de Montauban, Inventaire General des richeses d'art de la France. Province, Monuments civils (1905), pg. 148, above nos. 1982-83
  • 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. 39
  • Norman Schlenoff, "Ingres Centennial at the Fogg Museum", The Burlington Magazine (1967), vol. CIX, pg. 379, fig. 65
  • Ingres, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1967), under no. 249
  • Ingres: Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Drawings, Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1967), no. 106, p. 248, repr.
  • Emilio Radius and Ettore Camesasca, L'opera completa di Ingres, Rizzoli (Milan, Italy, 1968), no. 115h, repr.
  • Daniel Ternois and Ettore Camesasca, Tout l'oeuvre peint d'Ingres (Paris, France, 1971), pg. 102, no. 116h, repr.
  • Patricia Condon, In Pursuit of Perfection: The Art of J.-A.-D. Ingres, exh. cat., Speed Art Museum (Louisville, KY, 1983), pp. 134-35, fig. 4
  • 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. 73; repr. fig. 55
  • Georges Vigne, Ingres, Citadelles & Mazenod and Abbeville Press (Paris, France; New York, NY, 1995), repr. pg. 295
  • Patricia Condon, "J. A. D. Ingres: Les dessins historiques achévés (deuxième partie).", Bulletin du Musée Ingres (Montauban, 1996), no. 69, pg. 11
  • 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, 11, 12, 15, 16, 37
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 251, repr.
  • Chikashi Kitazaki and Mina Oya, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, 2002), cat. no. 23, repr. (color)
  • 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. 76, 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. 76, repr.
  • Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 175, repr. p. 175 as fig. 400

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 09/14/2002 - 12/08/2002
  • 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

Verification Level

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