Henri Labrouste
1852
Artist, French, 1780 - 1867
Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 31 x 23.5 cm (12 3/16 x 9 1/4 in.)
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Accession
1995.47.52
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Catalogue Raisonné
Naef c.1977, no. 426
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Henri Labrouste [d. 1875], Fontainbleau; by inheritance to his daughter, Madame Frédéric Simon, née Anne-Marie-Julie Labrouste (living in Versailles until 1926); (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 14 June 1946, no. 8); purchased by (Gallery Wildenstein, New York); purchased 1950 by T. Edward Hanley [1895-1969], Bradford, Pennsylvania; purchased 1968 by (E.V. Thaw & Co., Inc., New York); purchased 1969 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. 363.
1881
Exposition de l'art rétrospectif, Palais de Versailles, Versailles, 1881, no. 1441.
1949
Ingres, Galerie André Weil, Paris, 1949, no. 63.
1957
The T. Edward Hanley Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1957, 2.
1960
The T. Edward Hanley Collection, Drawings, Watercolors, Prints, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1960, no. 83.
1961
Paintings and Drawings from the Hanley Collection, Gallery Wildenstein, New York, and Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1961-1962, no. 78, repr. 35.
1967
Selections from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. T. Edward Hanley, Gallery of Modern Art, New York, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Denver Art Museum, 1967-1968, 63.
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. 157, repro., as Pierre-François-Henri Labrouste (shown only in Washington & New York).
2000
Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2000, 206.
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. 339.
1873
Lambert-Lassus. "Correspondance de M. Lassus avec M. Ingres au sujet du portrait de M. Labrouste," Nouvelles Archives de l'art français (1873): 444-453.
1879
Millet, Eugene. "Notice sur la vie et les oeuvres de Pierre-François-Henry Labrouste." Bulletin de la Société centrale des architectes (1879-1880): 13.
1888
Jouin, Henry. Musée de portraits d'artistes. Paris, 1888: 103.
1901
Lapauze, Henry. Les dessins de Ingres du Musée de Montauban. Paris, 1901: 266.
1911
Lapauze, Henry. Ingres. Paris, 1911: 463, repro. 443.
1920
Vollard, Ambroise. Auguste Renoir. Paris, 1920: 239-240(?).
1928
Souvenirs d'Henry Labrouste, notes recueilles et classées par ses enfants. n.p., 1928: 31.
1933
Alaux, Jean-Paul. Académie de France à Rome. Vol. 2. Paris, 1933: 118.
1938
Vollard, Ambroise. En écoutant Cézanne, Degas, Renoir. Paris, 1938: 274(?).
1950
Alazard, Jean. Ingres at l'Ingrisme. Paris, 1950: 107.
1951
Les grands créateurs de Paris. Exh. cat. Musée Carnavalet, Paris, 1951: under no. 409.
1953
Labrouste. Exh. cat. Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1953: 9, under nos. 129, 130, 150.
1954
Weigert, Roger-Armand. "M. Ingres, une lettre inédite." Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français. 1954, Paris, 1955: 230-231.
1962
"The Hanley Collection." Art International. (February 1962): repr. 49.
1977
Naef, Hans. Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres. 5 vols. Bern: Benteli Verlag, c.1977-1980.
1995
National Gallery of Art Annual Report, 1995, 67.
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. 157.
2009
Taylor, Michael R., ed. Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art and elsewhere. Philadelphia, 2009: fig. 106.
Inscriptions
lower right in graphite: à Messieurs / les Eleves de / Monsieur Labrouste / architecte. / Ingres Del / 1852
Wikidata ID
Q64581112