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A drawing of a man in formalwear cropped beneath the chest.

The drawing in graphite depicts a man cropped beneath the chest, facing right page. His short hair stands up from his head in regular tufts. He wears a coat and jacket, each with prominent lines of buttons, over a shirt and high neckcloth.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2015.13
People
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)
Title
Portrait of the Architect François-Désiré Girard de Bury
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1808
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/352504

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite
Dimensions
13.3 x 7.9 cm (5 1/4 x 3 1/8 in.)
frame: 37.9 x 33 x 4.4 cm (14 15/16 x 13 x 1 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: graphite [erased]: [right:] bien plu p . . . [in ruffle:] plus . . .
  • inscription: mount, by Achille Leclère : ingres. f. Rome 1808 [superimposed over 7] / portrait de Bury architecte

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The drawing was included in an album (now at the Harvard Art Museums, 1965.21) assembled by Achille Leclère (Rome and Paris); his heirs. Madame Fassier, sold; to [Claude Darton, Avignon] sold; to [Lucien Goldschmidt, New York] sold; to Mrs. Jacob M. Kaplan; the drawing was removed from the album and sold; to [Eugene V. Thaw, New York] sold; to Rosalynd C. Pflaum, Minneapolis, sold [Christie's, New York, January 29, 2015, lot 127]; to Harvard Art Museums and Emily Pulitzer, 2015

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Promised gift of Emily Rauh Pulitzer and purchase through the Richard Norton Memorial Fund and the Marian H. Phinney Fund
Accession Year
2015
Object Number
2015.13
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Daniel Ternois, "L'Ingrisme dans le monde", Bulletin du Musée Ingres (1964), September, p. 21
  • Architecture and the Achille Leclère-Ingres Sketchbook, Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc. (New York, 1964), no. 124 (11), repr.
  • Hans Naef, "L'Ingrisme dans le monde", Bulletin du Musée Ingres (1965), July, p. 21
  • Hans Naef, "Eighteen Portrait Drawings by Ingres", Master Drawings (1966), IV, no. 3, pp. 258, 280, no. 3, pl. 2
  • Ingres: Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Drawings, Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1967), no. 8, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan, "Ingres as a Great Portrait Draughtsman", Colloque Ingres, ed. Mathieu Méras and Alan Godeau, Amis du Musée Ingres (Montauban, 1969), pp. 134-50, p. 141, fig. 5
  • A Loan Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolors from Minnesota Private Collections, exh. cat., Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, 1971), no. 14, repr.
  • Hans Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres (Bern, Switzerland, 1978), (Vol. I) pp. 174-77, chapter 16, repr. p. 174 as fig. 1; (Vol. IV) pp. 92-93, no. 49, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), p. 290, appendix A
  • Old Master and British Drawings, auct. cat., Christie's, New York (New York, January 29, 2015), p. 137 as lot 127, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Ingres Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/12/1967 - 04/09/1967
  • Drawings & Watercolors from Minnesota Private Collections, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 05/13/1971 - 06/13/1971

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