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Identification and Creation

Object Number
6.2018.2
People
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)
Title
Portrait of Madame Jean-Pierre Gonin, née Louise Lafon
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1841
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/362113

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on beige wove paper
Dimensions
sight: 26.6 × 20.3 cm (10 1/2 × 8 in.)
frame: 51.2 × 44.8 cm (20 3/16 × 17 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: graphite, lower right: Ingres à son Excellent ami M. Gonin / flor. 1841.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan
Object Number
6.2018.2
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 366
  • David and Ingres: Paintings and Drawings, exh. cat., Springfield Museum of Fine Arts (Springfield, MA, 1939), no. 36, repr.
  • 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. 3
  • 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. 51, 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. 17, pp. 148, 162, fig. 11
  • 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. 81, repr.
  • Marjorie B. Cohn, "The Original Format of Ingres Portrait Drawings", Colloque Ingres, Dupin (Montauban, France, 1969), pp. 17, 19-21
  • Hans Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres (Bern, Switzerland, 1978), vol. 2, pp. 384-410, vol. 5, no. 382, 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

Verification Level

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