Ingres (1780–1867) as a Young Man

ca. 1850–60
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 640
Artists typically sketched out key components of their compositions onto their canvases in graphite or white chalk as guides before they began to apply oil paint. Self-portraits often depict artists at this moment while their canvas sits ready, propped up on the easel in a clever comment on the creation of the finished self-portrait itself. In 1804 a leading figure of French painting, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, completed a self-portrait, of which this is a faithful copy. Copying was a typical means for painters to hone their skills. In this case, it was executed by an amateur painter, Laurence-Augustine Jubé Héquet, the wife of a composer and collector who owned Ingres’s original for much of the nineteenth century.

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Object Information
  • Title: Ingres (1780–1867) as a Young Man
  • Artist: Laurence-Augustine Jubé Héquet (Madame Héquet) (French, Cuneo (Coni) 1803/4–1864 Paris)
  • Date: ca. 1850–60
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 34 x 27 1/ 2 in. (86.4 x 69.9 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Grace Rainey Rogers, 1943
  • Object Number: 43.85.1
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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