Portrait of a Man

1796

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Associated Names
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Artist, French, 1780 - 1867

The image shows a monochrome drawing of a man's bust. He is facing to his left with a distinctive nose and chin, and has wavy, powder-white hair tied back. The man is dressed in a high-collared shirt with a ruffled cravat and a coat typical of 18th-century formal attire. The background is plain with a circular frame around the subject, emphasizing his features and clothing.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite on parchment, with black ink and green watercolor in a decorative border

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image (diameter): 9 cm (3 9/16 in.)
    sheet (diameter): 13.8 cm (5 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1954.12.82

  • 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

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