1942.44.A: Study of the Head of Octavia in "Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1942.44.A

People

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

Title

Study of the Head of Octavia in "Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus"

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1812

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298466

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite and white chalk on brown wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 15.4 x 21.8 cm (6 1/16 x 8 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: graphite, lower right: "Ing"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Sold by the artist to Étienne-François Haro; consigned by him the Ingres sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 6-7, 1867 (Lugt 1921, no. 1477), not in catalogue, Reginald David, Paris; acquired from him through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, 1927, his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1942.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886

Accession Year

1942

Object Number

1942.44.A

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Agnes Mongan, "Drawings by Ingres in the Winthrop Collection", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (July-December 1944), ser. 6, 26, pg. 406
• Ingres, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1967), pg. 161, under no. 111
• Ingres: Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Drawings, Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1967), no. 22, pp. 246, 248, 249, repr.
• Robert Mesuret, "'Si Qua Fata Aspera Rumpas,' ou les disgraces du tableau préferé", Colloque Ingres, Dupin (Montauban, France, 1969), pg. 131, no. 26, cat. no. 52
• Agnes Mongan, "Ingres et ses jeunes compatriotes à Rome 1806-1820", Bulletin du Musée Ingres, Amis du Musée Ingres (Montauban, France, 1980), 47, pg. 14
• Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 213, repr.
• Daniel Ternois, Lettres d’Ingres à Marcotte d’Argenteuil: dictionnaire, Librairie des Arts et Métiers-Ed. Jacques Laget (Nogent-le-Roi, France, 2001), pg. 236, no. 18
• 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. 51, 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. 51, repr.
• Sonia Couturier, French Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada / Dessins français du Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, 2004), under cat. no. 48, p. 121
• Susan L. Siegfried, Ingres: Painting Reimagined, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, 2009), p. 61, repr. in color p. 61 as fig. 26
• Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 169

Exhibition History

• French Art of the Nineteenth Century, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/01/1942 - 08/31/1942
• 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
• HAA 10 Survey Course: The Western Tradition, Art Since the Renaissance, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/08/2008 - 04/06/2008

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