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The Borghese Chapel in Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower left, in pen and dark brown ink: "Ingres"; inscribed lower left, in graphite: "NO 1811?"
Provenance
Charles Marcotte d'Argenteuil (1773–1864); his daughter, Maria, later Mme Lengetil (1828–1920); by descent; sold, Christie's, London, July 7, 2009, lot 55, to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.
Exhibition history
Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, Ingres, 1867, cat. 232. Paris, Hôtel de la Chambre Syndicale de la Curiosité et des Beaux-Arts, Ingres, 1921, cat. 160. Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 56 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection, Jan. 25–Oct. 12, 2020; traveled to New York, Morgan Library and Museum, Feb. 19–June 6, 2021.
Publications
Charles Blanc, Ingres, sa vie et ses ouvrages (Veuve J. Renfouard, 1870), p. 244. Daniel Ternois, “Ingres aquarelliste,” La revue des arts 2 (June 1955), p. 104 n. 7. Hans Naef, in Ingres in Rome, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art, 1971), p. 42, under cat. 51. Colin Eisler, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian (Phaidon, 1977), pp. 368, 372 n. 20. Patricia Condon, “J.A.D. Ingres: Les dessins historiques,” Bulletin du Musée Ingres 67–68 (1995), no. 53. Georges Viggne, Dessins d'Ingres: Catalogue raisonné des dessins du Musée de Montauban (Gallimard, 1995), p. 185, under no. 1024. Patricia Condon, "Les dessins historiques achevés de J.-A.-D Ingres (deuxième partie),” Bulletin du Musée Ingres 69 (1996), pp. 8, 23. Daniel Ternnois, Lettres d'Ingres à Marcotte d'ARgenteuil (Libraire des Arts et Métiers-Jacques Laget, 1999), pp. 30, 73 n. 12. Daniel Ternois, Lettres d'Ingres à Marcotte d'Argenteuil: Dictionnaire (Jacques Laget, 2001), pp. 75, 77 n. 79, fig. 29.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres / French, 1780–1867
- Date
- 1824
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and graphite and brush and gray and brown wash, with touches of red and ocher gouache, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid card, laid down on blue matboard
- Dimensions
- 17 × 13.7 cm (6 3/4 × 5 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2022.76
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