Portrait of a Man
1796
Artist, French, 1780 - 1867
Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite on parchment, with black ink and green watercolor in a decorative border
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image (diameter): 9 cm (3 9/16 in.)
sheet (diameter): 13.8 cm (5 7/16 in.) -
Accession
1954.12.82
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Catalogue Raisonné
Naef c.1977, no. 10
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Jean Ningres, Toulouse, by 1939. (Henri Petiet, Paris), by 1953;[1] Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift to the National Gallery, 1954.
[1] See Hans Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres, (Bern, 1980), Vol. IV, p. 24.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1967
Ingres Centenial Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1967.
1995
Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America, Washington, DC, 1994: fig. 2:9.
1999
Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch, The National Gallery, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1999-2000, no. 14, repro., as Unknown Man (shown only in Washington and New York).
Bibliography
1967
Mongan, A. & Naef, H., INGRES CENTENNIAL EXH, Fogg: 1967, 3.
1970
Naef, PANTHEON, 28:3 1970: 221-36, 5.
1977
Naef, Hans. Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres. 5 vols. Bern: Benteli Verlag, c.1977-1980.
1994
Miles, Ellen G. Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America. Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 1994, pp. 30, 33, fig. 2:9.
1999
Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch. Exh. cat. The National Gallery, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1999-2000: no. 14.
Inscriptions
around bottom circumference in black ink: Ingres fils f. 13.7 bre 1796
Wikidata ID
Q64581100