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Comtesse Charles d’Agoult (born Marie de Flavigny) and Her Daughter Claire d’Agoult
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right, graphite: "J. Ingres Del 1849/"
Provenance
Comtesse Charles d’Agoult (née Marie Catherine Sophie de Flavigny; 1805–1876), Paris; by descent to her daughter, Marquise Guy Ernest Charles de Girard de Charnacé (née Claire d’Agoult; 1830–1912), Versailles; by descent to her son, Marquis Daniel de Girard de Charnacé (1851–1942), Croissy-Beaubourg; by descent to his daughter, Comtesse de Saint-Priest d’Urgel (née Claude de Girard de Charnacé; 1883–1984); by descent to her daughter, Marquise de la Garde de Saignes (née Anne-Dauphine de Saint-Priest d’Urgel; 1908–1992), Paris; sold, Drouot Montaigne, Paris, Mar. 17, 1989, lot 18. Sold, Christie’s, New York, Jan. 31, 2013, lot 85, through François néee to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Exhibition history
Paris, Salon des Arts-Unis, Dessins [d’Ingres] tirés de collections d’amateurs, 1861. Paris, Ecole impériale des Beaux-Arts, Tableaux, études peintes, dessins et croquis de J.-A.-D. Ingres, peintre d’histoire, sénateur, membre de l’Institut, 1867, cat. 544. Versailles, Palais de Versailles, Exposition de l’art rétrospectif, 1881, cat. 242. Paris, Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Exposition David et ses élèves, 1913, cat. 351. Paris, Hôtel de la Chambre syndicale de la Curiosité et des Beaux-Arts, Exposition Ingres, 1921, cat. 117. Paris, Jacques Seligmann et Fils, Exposition de portraits par Ingres et ses élèves, 1934, cat. 40. Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent portraits de femmes: du XVe siècle à nos jours, 1950, cat. 128. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Cleveland Museum of Art; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; Saint Louis Art Museum, French Drawings: Masterpieces from Five Centuries, 1952–53, cat. 118, pl. 32. Chicago, Art Institute; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Detroit Institute of Arts; The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, French Drawings: Masterpieces from Seven Centuries, 1955–56, p. 47, cat. 108, pl. 32. Hamburg, Kunsthalle; Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum; Stuttgart, Württembergische Kunstverein, Französische Zeichnungen von den Anfängen bis zum Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts, 1958, cat. 131 (ill.). Paris, Petit Palais, Ingres, 1967–68, cat. 242 (ill.). New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch, 1999–2000, cat. 152 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, pp. 76-77, fig. 29, p. 140, GC 89, traveled to New York, The Morgan Library, February 19 - June 6, 2021, and Berkeley CA, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, August 4 - November 28, 2021.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres / French, 1780–1867
- Date
- 1849
- Medium
- Graphite, heightened with white opaque watercolor, with touches of yellow watercolor, on off-white wove paper, lined to secondary wove paper
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 48.5 × 39.9 cm (19 1/8 × 15 3/4 in.); Secondary support: 49.9 × 41.5 cm (19 11/16 × 16 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2019.852
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