Self-Portrait

1822

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: 20.2 x 16.1 cm (7 15/16 x 6 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.47.51

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Naef c.1977, no. 265

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Charles Marcotte d'Argenteuil (died 1864), Paris; by inheritance to his son, Joseph Marcotte (died 1893), Paris; by inheritance to his widow, Madame Joseph Marcotte, née Paule Aguillon (died 1922), Paris; by inheritance to her daughter, Madame Marcel Pougin de la Maisonneuve, née Elisabeth Marcotte (died 1939, Durtol); by inheritance to her daughter-in-law, Madame Vve Xavier de la Maisonneuve [née Yolande de Beauregard, later Madame François de Calmels-Puntis]; by descent through the family; purchased 1963 by (Galerie Hector Brame, Paris); purchased 1963 by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1867

  • Ingres, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1867, no. 359.

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. 91, repro. (shown only in Washington and New York).

2012

  • Vernet to Villon: Nineteenth-Century French Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Art. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma. Norman, OK, 2012, no. 7.

2016

  • In Celebration of Paul Mellon, NGA, 2016.

Bibliography

1870

  • Blanc, Charles. Ingres, sa vie et ses ouvrages. Paris, 1870: 237.

  • Delaborde, Henri. Ingres. Paris, 1870, no. 332.

1888

  • Jouin, Henry. Musée de portraits d'artistes. Paris, 1888: 95.

1903

  • Lapauze, Henry. Les portaits dessinés de J.-A.-D. Ingres. Paris, 1903: no. 41.

1911

  • Lapauze, Henry. Ingres. Paris, 1911: repro. 217.

1913

  • Lapauze, Henry. "Lettres inédites de Ingres à son ami M. Marcotte." Le Correspondant (25 September 1913): 1073-1075.

1926

  • d'Agen, Boyer. Ingres dessinateur des antiques. Paris, 1926: XV.

1947

  • Ecrits sur l'art, textes recueilles dans les carnets et dans la correspondance de Ingres. Paris, 1947: repr. opposite 56.

1959

  • Ternois, Daniel. "Les dessins d'Ingres au Musée de Montauban, les portraits." Inventaire général des dessins des musées de province 3 (1959): under no. 74.

1967

  • Angrand, Pierre. Monsieur Ingres et son époque. Paris and Lausanne, 1967: plate III.

1971

  • Naef, Hans. "Die Geschischte des Doktors Martinet und sein Bildnis von Ingres." Image 42 (1971): 19.

1972

  • Naef, Hans. "Ingres Royiste." Image 46 (1972): repr. 25.

1977

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

1994

  • Ecrits sur l'art: Dessins d'Ingres. Bibliotheque des Arts, Paris, 1994, facing p. 8.

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. 91.

2001

  • Mittler, Gene A. and James D. Howze. Creating and Understanding Drawings. New York, 2001: 16, fig. 1.15.

2012

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan, and Andrew Robison. Color, Line, Light: French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels from Delacroix to Signac. Exh. cat. Musée des impressionnismes Giverny and National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 23, fig. 5 (color).

Inscriptions

lower center in graphite: Ingres à Son ami Monsieur Marcotte. / florence 1822.

Wikidata ID

Q64581111

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