Madame Alexandre Lethière and Her Daughter Letizia

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

Date:
ca. 1815
Medium:
Graphite
Dimensions:
11 13/16 x 8 11/16 in. (30 x 22.1 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Bequest of Grace Rainey Rogers, 1943
Accession Number:
43.85.7
  • Provenance

    Guillaume de Gontaut-Biron, marquis de Biron ; Wildenstein & Co., Inc. (New York); Grace Rainey Rogers(acquired 1940); Donor: Grace Rainey Rogers

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Naef 1999

  • References

    Daniel Ternois Inventaire général des dessins des Musées de province "Les dessins d'Ingres au Musée de Montauban, les portraits". 3, Paris, 1959, cat. no. 63.

    Anonymous Donor Harvard Alumni Bulletin A Gala Opening at the Fogg. 1967, p. 25.

    Jean-Marie Paisse "Esquisse d'une analyse psychologique du portrait de la famille Alexandre Letheière." Bulletin du Musée Ingres. no. 30, December 1971.

    Pierre-Jules-Theophile Gautier "Ingres." La Renaissance de l'art français. vol. 4, Paris, May 1921, p. 229, ill.

    Hans Naef Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres. 1-4, Bern, 1977-1980, vol. 14, pp. 139, 252, Kat. 139; vol. I, p. 412, Abb. 11, ill.

    Agnes Mongan, Hans Naef Ingres Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967 Exh. cat., Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Feb. 12-April 9, 1967. Cambridge, 1967, cat. no. 31, ill.

    Henri Lapauze Exposition Ingres Exh. cat., Paris, Chambre Syndicale de la Curiosité et des Beaux-Arts. Paris, 1921, cat. no. 66, fig. no. pl. 66, p. 30.

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    Marjorie B. Cohn "Fogg Art Museum Acquistions, 1966-1967" Profile Portrait of Guillaume Guillon Lethière by J.A.D. Ingres. Cambridge, MA, 1968, pp. 54-59.

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    Lise Duclaux, M. J. Foucart, Hans Naef, Maurice Sérullaz, Daniel Ternois Ingres Exh. cat., Paris, Petit Palais, October 27, 1967-January 29, 1968. Paris, 1968, cat. no. 81, 82, pp. 116-118, ill.

    Michael Levey "Ingres at Cambridge and Paris" in Master Drawings. no. 1, 6, 1968, fig. no. pl. 33, p. 44, ill.

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    Linda Boyer Gillies, Colta Ives, Jacob Bean Classicism and Romanticism: French Drawings and Prints, 1800-1860. Ex. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1970, cat. no. 46, p. 8.

    Jacob Bean, Linda Boyer Gillies, Cynthia Lambros, Roseline Bacou, Réunion des musées nationaux Dessins français du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York de David à Picasso. 54th Exposition de Cabinet des Dessins Musée du Louvre, 25 October, 1973-7 January 1974. Paris, 1973.

    Madeleine Delpierre "Ingres et la mode de son temps (d'après ses portraits dessinés)" Bullletin du Musée Ingres. no. 37, July 1975.

    James David Draper, Clare Le Corbeiller The Arts Under Napoleon . New York, 1978, cat. no. 61.

    Barbara Burn Metropolitan Children.. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1984, pp. 8, 9, 106, ill.

    Gary Tinterow, Philip Conisbee, Christopher Riopelle, Hans Naef, Robert Rosenblum, Andrew Carrington Shelton, Georges Vigne, Rebecca A. Rabinow Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch. Ex. cat.: National Gallery, London, Jan. 27-Apr. 25, 1999; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 23-Aug. 22, 1999; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Oct. 5, 1999-Jan. 2, 2000. New York, 1999, cat. no. 54, fig. no. 54, p. 186, ill.

    Perrin Stein, Elizabeth Barker, George R. Goldner, Alain-Charles Gruber, Colta Ives, Asher Ethan Miller, Sabine Rewald, Gary Tinterow, Pierre Rosenberg The Wrightsman Pictures. Edited by Everett Fahy, New York, 2005, cat. no. under 81, fig. no. 5, p. 302, ill.

    Vincent Pomarède, Stéphane Guégan, Louis-Antoine Prat, Eric Bertin Ingres, 1780-1867. Paris, 2006, 2006, cat. no. 58, pp. 204-206, ill.



  • See also
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