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Madame Charles Gounod
Provenance
Charles Gounod (1818-1893), Paris; by descent to his wife (née Anna Zimmermann; died 1906), Paris; by descent to her daughter, Baronne Pierre de Lassus Saint-Genies (née Jeanne Gounod; died 1946) [Washington D.C. 1999]; sold to Galerie Hector Brame, Paris, about 1942 [Washington DC 1999]; sold by Cesar de Hauke (Galerie Hector Brame) to Chauncey McCormick (1884-1954), Chicago, 1947 [Washington DC 1999]; by descent to his wife (née Deering; 1886-1965); by descent to her sons, Charles Deering McCormick (died 1994), Brooks McCormick (1917-2006), and Roger McCormick; given to the Art Institute, 1964.
Exhibition history
Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 32 (ill.). Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 89 and 91, cat. 42 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 112-113, cat. 49 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Art Museum, March 10-May 16, 1986. Tübingen, Germany, Kunsthalle, "Ingres and Delacroix," September 3-October 26, 1986; traveled to Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, November 1-December 21, 1986. Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Portraits by Ingres," May 23-August 22, 1999, cat. 164 (ill. p. 493); traveled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 27, 1999-January 2, 2000.
Publications
Hans Naef, “Portrait Drawings by Ingres in The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 1 (1966), pp. 66-83, fig. 2. Herold Joachim, “Trois siècles de portraits dessinés à l’Art Institute de Chicago,” L’Oeil, 255 (October 1976), p. 6, no. 2 (ill.). Hans Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres (Bern, 1979), III: pp. 288-300, and V: p. 374, no. 447 (ill.). Bohumír Mráz, Ingres: Zeichnungen (Hanau, 1983), no. 69 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean–Auguste–Dominique Ingres / French, 1780–1867
- Date
- 1859
- Medium
- Graphite on ivory wove paper (discolored to cream)
- Dimensions
- 25.6 × 20.2 cm (10 1/8 × 8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Charles Deering McCormick, Brooks McCormick, and the Estate of Roger McCormick
- Accession no.
- 1964.78
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