Ingres’s portrait of Dulong de Rosnay is exceptional in its detailed recording of the sitter’s dress and accessories—areas the artist usually treated in a summary manner. This specificity is appropriate, as Dulong de Rosnay’s identity and rank (a decorated general, he was later named Baron de l’Empire) are expressed through his attire. His military uniform and the medallions that emblazon his chest signal his valor and service to the empire of Napoleon I, while his sword and arm sling tell of the brave battles he fought and the wounds he endured.
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Title:General Louis-Étienne Dulong de Rosnay
Artist:Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French, Montauban 1780–1867 Paris)
Date:1818
Medium:Graphite (hard and soft pencils) on wove paper with slightly browned edges
Dimensions:sheet: 17 3/4 x 13 1/2 in. (45.1 x 34.3 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2012
Accession Number:2012.150.9
Signature: Signed and dated at lower left: Ingres Deli. rom. 1818.
The sitter, Louis-Etienne Dulong de Rosnay (French), Paris, until his death, 1828; his son, Hermand Dulong de Rosnay, until his death, 1894; his grandson, Hermand Dulong de Rosnay, until his death, 1939; his son, Gilles Dulong de Rosnay, Paris, until 1959; Galerie Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, 1959; sold to Heinemann; Rudolf J. Heinemann, New York, until his death, 1975; his wife, Mrs. Rudolf J. Heinemann, New York; sale, Christie's, New York, May 22, 1997, lot 17, to Wrightsman; Mrs. Charles Wrightsman (American), New York, from 1997
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Everett Fahy, Pierre Rosenberg, Elizabeth E. Barker, George R. Goldner et al. The Wrightsman Pictures. New York and New Haven, 2005, cat. no. 85, 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, p. 88, ill. p. 87, fig. 58.
Constance C. McPhee et al. "Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 2010-2012." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. 70, no. 2, Fall 2012, p. 53, 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. 2.30, ill.
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