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Title:Studies for the Cadaver of Acron
Artist:Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French, Montauban 1780–1867 Paris)
Date:ca. 1810–12
Medium:Graphite on wove paper
Dimensions:7 11/16 x 14 3/4 in. (19.6 x 37.4 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1919
Accession Number:19.125.2
Signature: Lower left, graphite: Ing
Inscription: in graphite, across uppermost torso, left to right: clair / grande lumière / plus demi teinte / clair
Marking: Watermark on the support: H. Dobbs 1805
Jacques Edouard Gatteaux (French); Edouard Dubufe; François Flameng (French),his sale Paris 5/26-7,1919 lot 126; Vendor: Jacques Seligmann and Co., New York
Galerie Georges Petit, Paris. "Ingres," April 26, 1911–May 14, 1911.
Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums. "Ingres Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967: Drawings, Watercolors, and Oil Sketches from American Collections," February 12, 1967–April 9, 1967.
Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris. "Ingres," October 27, 1967–January 29, 1968.
Paris. Cabinet des dessins, Musée du Louvre. "Dessins français du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York de David à Picasso," October 25, 1973–January 7, 1974.
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Paris 1867, no. 177; Paris 1911, no. 191; Mráz 16; Ternois , no. 56
Emile Galichon "Dessins de M. Ingres, deuxième série." Gazette des Beaux-Arts. vol. 11, July 1, 1861.
Jacques Edouard Gatteaux Collection de 120 dessins, croquis et peintures de M. Ingres classés et mis en ordre par son ami Édouard Gatteaux. vol. 1, ser. 2, Paris, 1873 (?), fig. no. pl. 45, 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. 246-47.
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Michel Benisovich "The French Drawings of the Metropolitan Museum." The Burlington Magazine. vol. 82, London, March 1943, p. 73.
Jacob Bean 100 European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1964, cat. no. 64, fig. no. 64, 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. 12, ill.
Daniel M. Mendelowitz Drawing. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1967, ill.
George Waldemar Dessins d'Ingres. Paris, 1967, fig. no. pl. 64, ill.
Lise Duclaux, M. J. Foucart, Hans Naef, Maurice Sérullaz, Daniel Ternois Ingres. Exh. cat., October 27, 1967-January 29, 1968. Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 1968.
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. 42, p. 8.
Daniel Ternois "Napoléon et la Décoration du Palais Impérial de Monte Carlo en 1811-1813" Revue de l'Art. no. 7, 1970, fig. no. 27, pp. 831, 83, ill.
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 octobre 1973–7 janvier 1974. Paris, 1973, cat. no. 50, ill.
Werner Hofmann Runge in seiner Zeit Exh. cat., Hamburg. Hamburg, 1977-78, fig. no. 15, p. 109, ill.
Daniel Ternois Ingres. Milan, 1980, p. 46, ill.
Bohumír Mráz Ingres Zeichnungen. 1983, cat. no. 16, p. 42, ill.
Richard J. Campbell, Victor I. Carlson Visions of Antiquity: Neoclassical Figure Drawings. Exh. cat., Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Minneapolis. 1993, cat. no. 74, fig. no. 74, pp. 254-255, ill.
Vincent Pomarède, Stéphane Guégan, Louis-Antoine Prat, Eric Bertin Ingres, 1780-1867. Exh. cat., Musée du Louvre, Paris, February 24-May 15, 2006. Paris, 2006, fig. no. iii.123, p. 166, ill.
Andrew Carrington Shelton "The First Retrospective Exhibition of the Drawings of J.-A.-D. Ingres (1861): Appendix" Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. no. 2, 21, Summer 2022, cat. no. Ser. 2.6, ill.
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