Philippe Mengin de Bionval
1812
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: 25.6 x 19.6 cm (10 1/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
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Accession
1991.182.21
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Family of the sitter; (sale, Paris, Nouveau Drouot, 16 December 1985, lot 3); (Marianne Feilchenfeldt, Zurich); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, June 1987; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1991.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1990
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 106.
1995
The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 102.
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. 48, repro. (shown only in Washington).
2006
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.
2017
The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.
Bibliography
1995
The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 102.
Jones, Jennifer. "The Woodner Collections at the National Gallery." Drawing 17 (September-October 1995): 49-53 (repr. fig. 10).
1997
Richler, Martha. National Gallery of Art, Washington: A World of Art. London, 1997: 108-109, fig. 1.
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. 48.
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: xi, xii, fig. 3.
Inscriptions
lower right in graphite: Ingres a Rome / 1812
Wikidata ID
Q64581103