Past Exhibition

Portraits by Ingres

This drawing features a seated woman, her body turned to the right and her head facing us. Her hands are in her lap, holding an object resembling a book. The woman has dark curly hair styled under a lace-adorned bonnet. She has deep-set eyes, thin eyebrows, and a small mouth. The woman's face and neck are drawn in detail, but her clothes and accessories are roughly sketched. She wears a dark dress under a shawl with patterns and tassels that covers her shoulders and arms. In the background, there is a faint sketch of a scene with architectural structures, including an obelisk and steps leading to a building with domes or towers.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Mrs. Charles Badham, 1816, graphite on wove paper, The Armand Hammer Collection, 1991.217.20

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    West Building, Main Floor, Galleries 74, 75, 79, 80, 81, 83, and 84
This drawing features a seated woman, her body turned to the right and her head facing us. Her hands are in her lap, holding an object resembling a book. The woman has dark curly hair styled under a lace-adorned bonnet. She has deep-set eyes, thin eyebrows, and a small mouth. The woman's face and neck are drawn in detail, but her clothes and accessories are roughly sketched. She wears a dark dress under a shawl with patterns and tassels that covers her shoulders and arms. In the background, there is a faint sketch of a scene with architectural structures, including an obelisk and steps leading to a building with domes or towers.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Mrs. Charles Badham, 1816, graphite on wove paper, The Armand Hammer Collection, 1991.217.20

Overview: This first American exhibition devoted to the work of Jean-Auguste- Dominique Ingres included 38 paintings and 68 drawings. It brought together portraits of Madame Inès Moitessier from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and from the National Gallery, London, and included the famous portrait of Louis-François Bertin from the Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Organization: The exhibition was organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the National Gallery, London; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Curators were Philip Conisbee, senior curator of European paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington; Gary Tinterow, the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Christopher Riopelle, the National Gallery, London, assisted by Andrew Shelton, an independent Ingres specialist.

Sponsor: The exhibition was made possible by support from Airbus Industrie and by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

Attendance: 215,058

Catalog: Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch, edited by Gary Tinterow and Philip Conisbee. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999.

Brochure: Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch, by Isabelle Dervaux. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1999.

Other Venues:

  • National Gallery, London, 01/27/1999–04/25/1999
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 09/27/1999–01/02/2000

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