2016.85: Gabriel Courtois de Pressigny

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2016.85

People

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

Title

Gabriel Courtois de Pressigny

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1816

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/355640

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

plate: 30.8 × 21.1 cm (12 1/8 × 8 5/16 in.)
sheet: 40.2 × 30.3 cm (15 13/16 × 11 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: in plate, lower left: J. D. INGRES FECIT ROMAE. 1816.
• inscription: in plate, below image: Exquise politesse, eutretien noble, affable, / Diguité sûre, esprit, piété véritable, / style animé, bon coeur, tendre amour pour le Roi: / Dans ce Portrait, Lecteur, j'ai dit ceque tu voi.
• inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: A40036
• inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: Ingres Msr [?] de Pressigny Vendus 239 fr / voir catalogue Berard

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Hill-Stone, Inc., South Dartmouth, MA] sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2016.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State

iii/iii

Standard Reference Number

Delteil 1

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cynthia and Charles Field Fund

Accession Year

2016

Object Number

2016.85

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Gary Tinterow and Philip Conisbee, Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1999), pp. 1696-198, cat. no. 61 [not Harvard impression]

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