Self-Portrait, 1822

Inscription

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

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.

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.

1870

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).

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