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Title:Portrait of a Man
Artist:Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French, Montauban 1780–1867 Paris)
Date:1814
Medium:Graphite
Dimensions:8 9/16 x 6 9/16 in. (21.8 x 16.6 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1919
Accession Number:19.125.1
Signature: Lower left, graphite: Ingres. 1814
Marking: Collector's mark of François Flameng stamped in brown at lower right corner (Lugt 991); watermark: J. Whatman (Heawood, no. 1849); at lower left, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, collection stamp (Lugt 1943)
François Flameng (French)
Galerie Georges Petit, Paris. "Ingres," April 26, 1911–May 14, 1911.
Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. "Nineteenth century French drawings, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1947," March 8, 1947–April 6, 1947.
Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums. "Ingres Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967: Drawings, Watercolors, and Oil Sketches from American Collections," February 12, 1967–April 9, 1967.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," January 5, 1997–March 8, 1998.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch," October 5, 1999–January 2, 2000.
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Henri Lapauze Exposition Ingres. Exh. cat. Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, April 26-May 14, 1911, cat. no. 89, p. 31.
Henri Lapauze Ingres. Paris, 1911, p. 138.
Charles Saunier "Collection François Flameng" Les Arts. 1918, cf. nos. 164, 165, 167, cat. no. 167, p. 24, ill.
Bryson Burroughs "Recent Accessions: Drawings by Ingres." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 14, no. 11, New York, November 1919, pp. 229, 246-47, ill.
M. D. Zabel "Ingres in America." The Arts. vol. 16, February 1930, p. 381, ill.
Walter Mehring European Drawings from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Portfolio of Collotype Reproductions [Vol. 1: Italian Drawings; Vol. 2: Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings; Vol. 3: "New Series": Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings]. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 3 vols., New York, 1942–44, also N.S., no. 37., cat. no. 36 (vol.2), fig. no. 36, ill.
Agnes Mongan, Hans Naef Ingres Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Exh. cat., Feb. 12-April 9. Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967, cat. no. 27, ill.
Ebria Feinblatt "An Ingres Drawing for Los Angeles." Connoisseur. vol. 171, no. 686, London, 1969, fig. no. no. 5, pp. 262, 265, ill.
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. 45, p. 8.
Hans Naef Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres. 4 vols., Bern, 1977-1980, vol. 4, p. 208, no. 115; vol. 1, p. 254, fig. 4; vol. 4, p. ?, mentioned under no. 110; vol. 1, p. 343, fig. 5., cat. no. 115, 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. Exh. cat., National Gallery, London, January 27-April 25, 1999, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 23-August 22, 1999, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 5, 1999-January 2, 2000. New York, 1999, cat. no. 49, fig. no. 49, p. 178.
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