A drawing of a seated nude woman.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The drawing in watercolor on white paper depicts a nude woman seated on the end of a bed draped in white linens. The woman is facing away from the viewer, her hair up in a white and red striped cloth. A bunched mass od white cloth is wrapped around her left arm, and a white and red slipper lays on the floor near her right foot. A column stands in the foreground on the left of the image, a dark curtain with ornamented edging hanging over it partially.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.377
People
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)
Title
The Bather
Other Titles
Original Language Title: La Baigneuse
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1808
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299848

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and white gouache over graphite, squared in graphite, on white wove paper
Dimensions
34 x 22.8 cm (13 3/8 x 9 in.)
frame: 62.2 x 48.4 cm (24 1/2 x 19 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mme Delphine Ingres, née Ramel, the artist's widow; her nephew Albert Ramel; his widow Mme Ramel (d. 1928); her heirs; acquired from them through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, January 3, 1929 ($57,000 for cat. nos. 50 and 81); 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
1943.377
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edouard Gatteaux, Collection des 120 dessins, croquis et peintures de M. Ingres classés et mis en ordre par son ami Edouard Gatteaux, A. Guerinet (Paris, France, 1875), pl. 9 (1st ser.)
  • [Eugéne-Emmanuel Pineu-Duval] Amaury-Duval, L'Atelier d'Ingres, G. Crès et Cie (1924), pg. 81
  • Walter Pach, Ingres, Harper and Brothers Publishers (New York, NY and London, England, 1939), pg. 136
  • Agnes Mongan, "Drawings by Ingres in the Winthrop Collection", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (July-December 1944), ser. 6, 26, pg. 403
  • Allene Talmey, "The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard", Vogue, Conde Nast (New York, July 15, 1947), 15 July, pp. 44-49, 78-80, repr. p. 45
  • Norman Schlenoff, Ingres, ses sources littéraires, Presses Universitaires de France (Paris, France, 1956), pp. 57-58, n. 8
  • Martin Birnbaum, The Last Romantic (New York, NY, 1960), pg. 190
  • William Hesthal, Painted Papers: Watercolors from Durer to the Present, exh. cat., Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, 1962), n.p.
  • Ingres, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1967), pg. 58, under no. 34
  • Ingres: Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Drawings, Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1967), no. 114, p. 248, repr.
  • Emilio Radius and Ettore Camesasca, L'opera completa di Ingres, Rizzoli (Milan, Italy, 1968), pg. 91 under no. 49
  • Daniel Ternois and Ettore Camesasca, Tout l'oeuvre peint d'Ingres (Paris, France, 1971), pg. 91, under no. 50
  • Jean Sutherland Boggs, "Variations on the Nude", Apollo (June 1978), vol. CVII, no. 196, pp. 487-489, p. 488
  • John Spike, "Ingres at the Fogg Art Museum", The Burlington Magazine (1981), vol. 123, no. 936, p. 190
  • Patricia Condon, In Pursuit of Perfection: The Art of J.-A.-D. Ingres, exh. cat., Speed Art Museum (Louisville, KY, 1983), pp. 120-22, fig. 2
  • Annalisa Zanni, Ingres: catalogo completo dei dipinti, Cantini Editore (Florence, Italy, 1990), pp. 40 and 104, under cats. 26 and 81
  • [Eugéne-Emmanuel Pineu-Duval] Amaury-Duval, L'Atelier d'Ingres: Edition critique de l'ouvrage publié à Paris en 1878, ed. Daniel Ternois, Arthena (Paris, France, 1993), pp. 212-13, fig. 192
  • 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. 63; repr. fig. 49
  • Mary Anne Staniszewski, Believing is seeing: creating the culture of art, Penguin Press (New York, NY, 1995), repr. p. 78
  • 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, 8, 10, 13, 14, 35
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), pp. 216-17, cat. no. 230, repr.
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • Aileen Ribeiro, Ingres in Fashion: Representations of Dress and Appearance in Ingres's Images of Women, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1999), p. 248 (n. 1 to ch. 11)
  • Vincent Pomarède, "La Collection Winthrop: A la recherche de la beauté pure", L'Estampille/L'Objet d'art (April 2003), no. 379, pp. 34-45, repr. p. 42 (color)
  • Anne Bertrand, "Winthrop: le dessein d'une collection", L'Oeil (March 2003), no. 545, p. 46 and fig. 3 (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. 50, repr. (color)
  • Christopher Riopelle, Harvard's Winthrop Collection: Nineteenth-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, exh. cat., National Gallery Company Limited (London, 2003), p. 29, cat. 16, ill.
  • 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. 50, repr.
  • Robert Dupin, "La Collection Winthrop", Universalia, Encyclopaedia Universalis (Paris, France, 2004), pp. 343-344, p. 344
  • Vincent Pomarède, Stéphane Guégan, Louis-Antoine Prat, and Eric Bertin, Ingres 1780-1867, exh. cat., Editions Gallimard (Paris, France, 2006), iII. 135
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), p. 199, repr. p. 197 as fig. 3

Exhibition History

  • 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
  • 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
  • Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) HAA171x Exoticism and Orientalism, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 02/05/2009 - 05/03/2009

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project
  • Collection Highlights

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