Dr. Louis Martinet

1826

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Artist, French, 1780 - 1867

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    overall: 32.3 x 24.7 cm (12 11/16 x 9 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.47.50

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Naef c.1977, no. 306

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Louis Martinet [d. 1875], Vannes; prior to 1870 given to Goupil Doctor's College (possibly Dr. Auguste Goupil [d. 1877], Paris); (No. 118 in an unidentified French auction catalogue [from old mount]); Arthur Veil-Picard [d. 1944], Paris, after 1903; by inheritance to his son, Arthur Veil-Picard, Paris; purchased 1954 by (Georges Seligmann, Inc., New York); purchased 1962 by Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

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. 104, repro. (shown only in London and Washington).

  • An Enduring Legacy: Masterpieces from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999-2000.

2000

  • Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2000, 204.

2016

  • In Celebration of Paul Mellon, NGA, 2016.

Bibliography

1870

  • Blanc, Charles. Ingres, sa vie et ses ouvrages. Paris, 1870: 246.

  • Delaborde, Henri. Ingres. Paris, 1870: no. 372.

1886

  • Corbucci, Vittorio. Luigi Calamatta incisore. Civitavecchia, 1886: no. 94.

1901

  • Lapauze, Henry. Les dessins de J.-A.-D. Ingres du Musée de Montauban. Paris, 1901: 267.

1903

  • Lapauze, Henry. Les portraits dessinés de J.-A.-D. Ingres. Paris, 1903: 24, no. 70.

1911

  • Lapauze, Henry. Ingres. Paris, 1911: 286.

1971

  • Naef, Hans. "Die Geschichte des Doktors Martinet und sein Bildnis von Ingres." Image 42(1971): 17-21, repr. 17.

1977

  • Naef, Hans. Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres. 5 vols. Bern: Benteli Verlag, c.1977-1980.

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. 104.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Ingres à Son cher Docteur / et ami. 1826.

Wikidata ID

Q64581110

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