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Gallery Text
One of the foremost painters of his day, Ingres received
critical acclaim for his depictions of French high
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society. His portraits were frequently compared with
photographic daguerreotypes. Based on a known
photograph of the artist, this self-portrait — the only
one extant by this celebrated painter — demonstrates
his engagement with technology in fashioning his selfimage. But by thinning his physical frame and coloring
his gray hair, the aging artist rendered himself in a
more flattering way than the camera did. The glowing
eyes, haunting gaze, and fleshy skin of the portrait — all
qualities difficult to capture in early photography —
further assert Ingres’s belief in the artistic superiority of
painting. The painting was originally octagonal, and he
expanded it to include his stylish glove and top hat.
Identification and Creation
Object Number
1943.253
People
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban
1780 - 1867 Paris)
Title
Self-Portrait
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1859
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Culture
French
Location
Level 2, Room 2200, European and American Art, 17th–
19th century, The Emergence of Romanticism in Early
Nineteenth-Century France
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Physical Descriptions
Medium
Oil on paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions
65.4 x 53.7 cm (25 3/4 x 21 1/8 in.)
framed: 90.5 x 78.3 cm (35 5/8 x 30 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
Signed: l.l.: J.A. [Ingres] / 1859
Provenance
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1859, to; Mme.
Delphine Ingres (née Ramel), his widow, by descent; to
Albert Ramel (her nephew), by descent; to Mme Ramel
(his widow), by 1887, by descent, to Emmanuel Riant
(her son-in-law). [Wildenstein & Co., New York], sold; to
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, May 25, 1936,
bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of
Grenville L. Winthrop
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Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.253
Division
European and American Art
Contact
[email protected]
Publication History
"Chronique Locale", Le Courrier de Tarm-et-Garonne
(April 26, 1862)
P[rosper] [Debia], "Feuilleton de Courrier, Exposition
des Beaux-Arts, à Montauban", Le Courrier de Tarn-et-
Garonne (May 31 1862)
Exposition des Beaux-Arts, exh. cat., Hôtel de Ville,
Montauban (Montauban, France, 1862), no. 542
D'Arpentigny, "Exposition intime dans l'atelier de M.
Ingres", Le Courrier artistique (June 19, 1864), p. 11
Emile Bellier de la Chavignerie, "Notes sur l'oeuvre de
M. Ingres", La Chronique des Arts et de la Curiosité
(1867), vol. V, p. 60
Catalogue des tableaux, études peintes, dessins et
croquis de J.A.D. Ingres exposé dans les galeries de
l'Ecole impériale des Beaux-Arts, exh. cat., Ad. Laine et
J. Havard (Paris, France, 1867), no. 96
Olivier Merson and Emile Bellier de la Chavignerie,
Ingres, sa Vie et ses Oeuvres, J. Hetzel (Paris, France,
1867), p. 122
Henri, Vicomte Delaborde, Ingres, sa vie, ses travaux,
sa doctrine, d'apres les notices manuscrites et les
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lettres du maitre, H. Plon (Paris, France, 1870), no. 131
Edouard Gatteaux, Dessins, croquis et peintures de M.
Ingres de la Collection de Édouard Gateaux, du Musée
National du Louvre et l'École Nationale des Beaux-Arts
à Paris (Paris, France, 1873?), pl. 57
Edouard Gatteaux, Collection des 120 dessins, croquis
et peintures de M. Ingres classés et mis en ordre par
son ami Edouard Gatteaux, A. Guerinet (Paris, France,
1875), pl. 65
Henry Lapauze, Les dessins de J.-A.-D. Ingres du
Musée de Montauban, J. E. Bulloz (Paris, France, 1901),
pp. 10, 250, under Cahier X
Augustine Boyer d'Agen (Jean-Auguste Boye), Ingres
d'apres une correspondence inédit, H. Daragon (Paris,
France, 1909), p. 445, under no. LXXXI
Exposition Ingres, exh. cat., Galerie Georges Petit
(Paris, France, 1911), no. 65
Henry Lapauze, Ingres, sa vie & son oeuvre, G. Petit
(Paris, France, 1911), p. 532
"La Doctrine de Ingres", La Renaissance de l'art
Français (May 1921), vol. IV, no. 5, repr. p. 270
Léonce Bénédite, "Une exposition d'Ingres", Gazette
des Beaux-Arts (June 1921), vol. III, pp. 325-337, repr.
p.325
Henry Lapauze, Exposition Ingres, exh. cat., Galerie
Georges Petit (Paris, France, 1921), no. 51
Walter Pach, Ingres, Harper and Brothers Publishers
(New York, NY and London, England, 1939), p. 130, repr.
facing p. 274
[Reproduction only], "French Painting", Bulletin of the
Fogg Art Museum , Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA,
November 1943)., repr. in b/w, p. 59
Dorothy Adlow, "Winthrop Bequest Boosts Fogg
Museum to Front Rank", The Christian Science Monitor
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(October 18, 1943), p. 5
Chinese Sculpture, Bronzes, Jades, Paintings and
Drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, PreColumbian art; selected from the collection of Grenville
Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum
(Cambridge, MA, 1943), p. 4
Agnes Mongan, "Drawings by Ingres in the Winthrop
Collection", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (July-December
1944), ser. 6, 26, p. 388 n. 1
Edgar P. Richardson, "Recent Acquisitions of American
Collections: Ingres' Self-Portrait in the Fogg Museum",
Art Quarterly (1944), 7, pp. 66-67, pp. 66-67, ill.
Otto Benesch, "The Winthrop Collection: From NeoClassic to Romanticism; David, Ingres, Géricault", Art
News (January 1-14, 1944), vol. 42, no. 16, pp. 9-10, 2021, 32, repr. p. 20
[Reproduction only], Harvard Alumni Bulletin,
(Cambridge, MA, January 8, 1944)., repr. on cover
A Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings from the
Ingres Museum at Montauban, exh. cat., Knoedler
Galleries (New York, NY, 1952), p. 6
Georges Wildenstein, Ingres, Phaidon Press (London,
England, 1954), pp. 223, fig. 172; 224-225, no. 292; ,
231, under no. 316
Georges Wildenstein, Ingres (London, England, 1956),
pp. 223, fig. 172, 224 no. 292
Martin Birnbaum, The Last Romantic (New York, NY,
1960), pp. 190-191
Ingres and Degas: Two Classical Draughtsmen, exh.
cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1961), no. 3
Daniel Ternois, Inventaire des collections publiques
francaises, 11, Montauban, Musee Ingres, peintures,
Ingres et son temps., Editions des Musées Nationaux
(Paris, France, 1965), under nos. 25, 191
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Norman Schlenoff, "Ingres Centennial at the Fogg
Museum", The Burlington Magazine (1967), vol. CIX, p.
376
Ingres, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris,
France, 1967), under no. 254, p. 330
Ingres: Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Drawings,
Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American
Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge,
MA, 1967), pp. x-xi
Paintings from the Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
shown in conjunction with the Ingres Centennial
Exhibition, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge,
MA, 1967), no. V
Aaron Scharf, Art and Photography (London, England,
1968), pp. 27-29
Ingres e Firenze, exh. cat., Centro di Firenze (Florence,
Italy, 1968), pp. 8, under no. 7 bis, 39 under no. 36
Emilio Radius and Ettore Camesasca, L'opera
completa di Ingres, Rizzoli (Milan, Italy, 1968), p. 116,
no. 106b, pl. LVII
Dorothy W. Gillerman, Gridley McKim-Smith, and Joan
R. Mertens, Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a
Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA,
1969), p. 240
Daniel Ternois and Ettore Camesasca, Tout l'oeuvre
peint d'Ingres (Paris, France, 1971), p. 116, no. 161b, pl.
LVII
René Huyghe, La relève de l'imaginaire: la peinture
francaise au XIXe siecle: realisme, romantisme,
Flammarion (Paris, France, 1976), p. 182
Jon Whiteley, Ingres, Oresko Books Ltd. (London,
England, 1977), frontispiece
Hans Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres
(Bern, Switzerland, 1978), vol. III pp. 21 n. 2, 203 n. 2
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Viorica Guy Marcia, Ingres, Meridiane (Bucharest,
1978), detail repr. as pl. 54
Gaetan Picon, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Quai
des Celestins, 4 (New York, NY, 1980), p. 9; repr. b/w p.
9
John Spike, "Ingres at the Fogg Art Museum", The
Burlington Magazine (1981), vol. 123, no. 936, p. 190
Pascal Bonafoux, Portraits of the Artist: The Self-
Portrait in Painting, Skira/Rizzoli (New York, NY, 1985),
repr. in color p. 117
Pierre Georgel and Anne-Marie Lecoq, La Peinture
dans la Peinture, Editions Adam Biro (Paris, France,
1987), repr. in color, pl. XV, opposite p. 136
Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900
in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue
including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum ,
Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA,
1990), p. 112, repr. as no. 311
Annalisa Zanni, Ingres: catalogo completo dei dipinti,
Cantini Editore (Florence, Italy, 1990), p. 140, under no.
108
Gaetan Picon, Ingres, Skira/Rizzoli (Geneva,
Switzerland/New York NY, 1991), repr. in color p. 110
De David a Matisse: 100 Dibujos franceses, exh. cat.,
Centro Cultural / Arte Contemporaneo (Mexico City,
Mexico, 1994), p. 166
Georges Vigne, Ingres, Citadelles & Mazenod and
Abbeville Press (Paris, France; New York, NY, 1995), p.
295-296, repr. as fig. 251
Daniel Ternois, ed., Lettres d'Ingres à Marcotte
d'Argenteuil, Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français
(Nogent-le-Roi, France, 1999), pp. 173 n. 4, 177 n. 8, 250
Valérie Bajou, Monsieur Ingres, Editions Adam Biro
(Paris, France, 1999), p. 328
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Gary Tinterow and Philip Conisbee, Portraits by Ingres:
Image of an Epoch, exh. cat., The Metropolitan
Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1999), pp. 366, repr. as
fig. 12, 368, 462-464, fig. 285, under nos. 148-149
Charlotte Hale, "Portraits by Ingres: Images of an
Epoch: Technical Observations", Metropolitan Museum
Journal (2000), 35, pp. 198-207, pp. 206-207
Daniel Ternois, Lettres d’Ingres à Marcotte
d’Argenteuil: dictionnaire, Librairie des Arts et MétiersEd. Jacques Laget (Nogent-le-Roi, France, 2001), pp.
47, 48 n. 16, 182
Chikashi Kitazaki, ed., Between Reality and Dreams:
Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the
Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum , exh. cat.,
National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, Japan, 2002),
p. 29, repr. as fig. 17
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-
Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L.
Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The
Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press
(New York, NY, 2003), no. 80, pp. 204-206, repr. in
color
Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler,
Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat.,
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des
Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 80, pp.
215-216, repr. in color
Sammlung Oskar Reinhart "Am Römerholz", Schwabe
(Basel, Switzerland, 2003), p. 284, repr. as abb. 1
Vincent Pomarède, Stéphane Guégan, Louis-Antoine
Prat, and Eric Bertin, Ingres 1780-1867, exh. cat.,
Editions Gallimard (Paris, France, 2006), p. 364, repr.
as ill. 219
Lilas Sharifzadeh, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
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Variations sur un thème. La Grande Odalisque
Découverte d'une réplique autographe, exh. cat.,
Galerie Hubert Duchemin (Paris, 2013), pp. 42-43; repr.
in color as ill. 26, p. 45.
Exhibition History
Exposition des Beaux-Arts, 1862, Hôtel de Ville,
Montauban, Montauban, 05/04/1862 - 05/31/1862
Tableaux, etudes peintes, dessins et croquis de J.-A.D. Ingres peintre d'histoire, sénateur, membre de
l'Institut, École Impériale des Beaux-Arts, Paris,
04/10/1867 - 12/31/1867
Exposition Ingres, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris,
04/26/1911 - 05/14/1911
Exposition Ingres, Chambre Syndicale de la Curiosité et
des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 05/08/1921 - 06/05/1921
Chinese sculpture, bronzes, jades, paintings and
drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, PreColumbian art : selected from the collection of
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum,
Cambridge, 10/01/1943 - 02/28/1944
Ingres and Degas: Two Classical Draughtsmen, Fogg
Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/24/1961 - 05/20/1961
Paintings from the Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
shown in conjunction with the Ingres Centennial
Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/12/1967 04/09/1967
Master Paintings from the Fogg Collection, Fogg Art
Museum, Cambridge, 04/13/1977 - 08/31/1977
Works by J.-A.-D. Ingres in the Collection of the Fogg
Art Museum , Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge,
10/17/1980 - 12/07/1980
Masterpieces of European Art, Busch-Reisinger
Museum, Cambridge, 06/22/1985 - 09/15/1985
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France and the Portrait, 1799-1870, Harvard University
Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/03/1994 - 01/29/2002
A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and
Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection,
Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon,
Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery,
London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights
from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard
University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum,
Cambridge, 04/16/2004
32Q: 2200 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums,
Cambridge, 11/01/2014
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