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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
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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]

Verification Level

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