6.2018.1: Portrait of Jean-Pierre Gonin

Identification and Creation

Object Number

6.2018.1

People

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

Title

Portrait of Jean-Pierre Gonin

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1841

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/362112

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on cream wove paper

Dimensions

sight: 26 × 19.2 cm (10 1/4 × 7 9/16 in.)
frame: 50.2 × 43.6 cm (19 3/4 × 17 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: graphite, lower left: Ingres à / Madame Gonin / flor 1841.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan

Object Number

6.2018.1

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Tony André, L'Eglise évanglique réformée de Florence depuis son origine jusqu'à nos jours, Imprimerie et Librairie Claudienne (Florence, 1899), repr. opposite p. 44
• Henry Lapauze, Ingres, sa vie & son oeuvre, G. Petit (Paris, France, 1911), repr. p. 363
• Louise Guerber, Three Portraits by Ingres, Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (August 1927), vol. 22, no. 8, p. 215, p. 215
• Morton Zabel, "Ingres in America", The Arts (February 1930), 16, p. 436
• Royal Cortissoz, The Painter's Craft, Charles Scribner & Sons (New York; London, 1930), pp. 207-208
• Louise Guerber Burroughs, "Ingres in Florence", Creative Art (May 1, 1932), vol. 10, p. 365, pp. 364-368, repr. p. 364
• David and Ingres: Paintings and Drawings, exh. cat., Springfield Museum of Fine Arts (Springfield, MA, 1939), no. 35
• Walter Pach, Ingres, Harper and Brothers Publishers (New York, NY and London, England, 1939), p. 26
• Hans Naef, "Ingres als Porträtist seiner westschweizerischen Freunde", Du (August 1955), vol. 15, p. 17, p. 17, fig. 2
• Ingres in American Collections: Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Lighthouse, New York Association for the Blind, exh. cat., Paul Rosenberg and Co. (New York, 1961), no. 50, repr.
• Louise Burroughs, "Ingres et la famille Gonin", Genava (1966), 14, pp. 163-172, pp. 170-171
• Hans Naef, "Ingres et les familles Gonin, Thomeguex et Guerber", Genava (1966), 14, pp. 113-162, no. 16, pp. 148, 161-162, fig. 10
• Agnes Mongan, "Hommage à Ingres", L'oeil (September 1967), nos. 151-53, p. 24
• Ingres: Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Drawings, Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1967), no. 80, repr.
• Marjorie B. Cohn, "The Original Format of Ingres Portrait Drawings", Colloque Ingres, Dupin (Montauban, France, 1969), pp. 17, 19, fig. 6, p. 24
• Hans Naef, "Ingres Royiste", Image (Basel, 1972), 46, repr. p. 26
• Hans Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres (Bern, Switzerland, 1978), vol. 2, pp. 384-410, vol. 5, no. 381, repr.

Exhibition History

• Unidentified Exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1927, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 01/01/1927 - 12/31/1927
• David and Ingres: Paintings and Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, 11/20/1939 - 12/17/1939; M. Knoedler & Co., 01/08/1940 - 01/27/1940; Cincinnati Art Museum, 02/07/1940 - 03/03/1940; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, 03/01/1940 - 04/01/1940
• Ingres in American Collections: Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Lighthouse, New York Association for the Blind, Paul Rosenberg and Co.
• Ingres Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/12/1967 - 04/09/1967

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