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Title:Jean-Joseph Fournier
Artist:Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French, Montauban 1780–1867 Paris)
Date:1815
Medium:Graphite on wove paper
Dimensions:Sheet: 9 1/2 x 6 3/8 in. (24.2 x 16.2 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2012
Accession Number:2012.150.12
Signature: Signed in graphite at upper left: Ingres Del.
Inscription: Dated in graphite at upper right: rome 1815; inscribed calligraphically in pen and ink at upper center: À L'amitié.
?By descent to the sitter's son, Fiorillo del Florido-Henri-Edmond Fournier, Paris, until his death, 1895; ?bequeathed to Baron Joseph Raphaël Vitta, Paris, by the former; César de Hauke, Paris; John S. Thacher, Washington, D.C., ca. 1952; Private Collection (Paris); E.V. Thaw & Co., Inc., New York, until 1998; sold to Wrightsman; Mrs. Charles Wrightsman (American), New York, from 1998
Palais des Arts, Nice. "Ingres," March 1, 1931–March 28, 1931.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT. "Pictures Collected by Yale Alumni," May 8, 1956–June 18, 1956.
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. "Ingres and Degas: Two Classical Draughtsmen," April 24, 1961–May 20, 1961.
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.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," November 26, 2012–February 24, 2013.
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Pictures Collected by Yale Alumni. Exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, May 8-June 18, 1956. New Haven, CT, 1956, cat. no. 207.
Hans Naef "Notes on Ingres Drawings." Art Quarterly. vol. 20, Summer 1957, pp. 183-87, fig. 2.
Ingres and Degas: Two Classical Draughtsmen. Exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 24-May 20, 1961. Cambridge, MA, 1961, cat. no. 2.
Agnes Mongan, Hans Naef Ingres Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967: Drawings, Watercolors, and Oil Sketches from American Collections. Exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 12-April 19, 1967. Cambridge, MA, 1967, cat. no. 29, ill.
Hans Naef Ingres. Exh. cat., Petit Palais, Paris, October 27, 1967-January 29, 1968. Paris, 1967, cat. no. 80, ill.
Joanne Eagle "Museum People as Collectors." Art in America. vol. 56, September-October 1968, pp. 44-51, ill. p. 47.
Ettore Camesasca, Emilio Radius L'opera completa di Ingres. Milan, 1968, p. 124.
Ettore Camesasca, Daniel Ternois Tout l'oeuvre peint de Ingres. Paris, 1971, p. 124.
Hans Naef Vier unbekannte Ingres-Modelle. Gotthard Jedlicka: Eine Gedenkschrift. Zurich, 1974, pp. 61-66, 69-70.
Hans Naef Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres. 4 vols., Bern, 1977-1980, vol. 4, pp. 272-73, no. 148, and vol. 1, chap. 53, pp. 486-90.
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, p. 270.
Marjorie B. Cohn A Private Passion: Nineteenth-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection. Exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, March 15-May 26, 2003; National Gallery, London, June 25-September 14, 2003; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 23-January 25, 2004. Stephan Wolohojian, New Haven, 2003, pp. 159-62, under no. 54.
Everett Fahy, Pierre Rosenberg, Elizabeth E. Barker, George R. Goldner et al. The Wrightsman Pictures. New York and New Haven, 2005, cat. no. 80, ill.
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