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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1943.246
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People
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban
1780 - 1867 Paris)
Title
Studies for "The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorien"
(Lictors, Stone Thrower, and Spectator)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1833
Culture
French
Physical Descriptions
Medium
Oil over graphite, squared in graphite, on canvas with
irregular edges, backed by canvas, backed by an
aluminum panel.
Dimensions
sight: 60.3 x 49.5 cm (23 3/4 x 19 1/2 in.)
framed: 79.4 x 69.5 x 6.4 cm (31 1/4 x 27 3/8 x 2 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
Signed: l.l.: Ingres
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inscription: Inscribed in graphite l.l. below standing
figure's foot: [?] plus haut; below stone-thrower's
proper left hand: p[lus] fin.
Provenance
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Created, 1833, Sold
to Haro, 1866.
Etienne-François Haro, Paris?, Purchased from the
artist, 1866, Sold at Ingres sale, Hotel Drouot, 1867.
Object was no. 8 in sale; presumably bought in for Fr
4,000
Etienne-François and Henri Haro, Paris, Haro sale,
Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1892. Object was no. 100,
and sold for Fr 3,600. Henri was the son of EtienneFrançois
Baron Joseph Vitta, Paris, Sold to Winthrop through
Birnbaum, 1935. The work was included in Vitta's sale
of March 15, 1935 at Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, as
no. 5, but was bought in for Fr 13,500 and sold to
Winthrop in a private transaction.
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Purchased from Baron
Joseph Vitta, through Birnb, 1935, Bequest to Fogg Art
Museum, 1943. Winthrop paid Fr 200,000 for this work
and 1943.254.
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of
Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
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Object Number
1943.246
Division
European and American Art
Contact
[email protected]
Publication History
"Mouvement des Arts et de la Curiosité. Tableaux et
Dessins d'Ingres", La Chronique des Arts et de la
Curiosité (May 5 and 12, 1867), vol. V, p. 145
Catalogue de la vente posthume de Ingres, auct. cat.
(Paris, France, May 6, 1867 - May 7, 1867), no. 8
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. 13
Henri, Vicomte Delaborde, Ingres, sa vie, ses travaux,
sa doctrine, d'apres les notices manuscrites et les
lettres du maitre, H. Plon (Paris, France, 1870), pp. 184185, under no. 16
Vente par suite de décès des collections de MM Haro,
auct. cat., Galerie Sedelmeyer (Paris, France, May 31,
1892), pp. xvi, 63, repr. opp. p. 64, no. 100
Henry Lapauze, Ingres, sa vie & son oeuvre, G. Petit
(Paris, France, 1911), p. 552
Exposition Ingres, exh. cat., Musée Jules Cheret (Nice,
France, 1931), p. 20, no. 9; repr. opp. p. 12
Baron Vitta sale, auct. cat., Galerie Jean Charpentier
(Paris, France, March 15, 1935), no. 5
Chinese Sculpture, Bronzes, Jades, Paintings and
Drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-
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Columbian art; selected from the collection of Grenville
Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum
(Cambridge, MA, 1943), p. 3
Agnes Mongan, "Drawings by Ingres in the Winthrop
Collection", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (July-December
1944), ser. 6, 26, p. 388-412, no. 1
Georges Wildenstein, Ingres, Phaidon Press (London,
England, 1954), no. 214
Martin Birnbaum, The Last Romantic (New York, NY,
1960), p. 188
Ingres, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris,
France, 1967), under no. 161
Ingres: Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Drawings,
Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American
Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge,
MA, 1967), under no. 60
Emilio Radius and Ettore Camesasca, L'opera
completa di Ingres, Rizzoli (Milan, Italy, 1968), p. 107,
no. 127f
Daniel Ternois and Ettore Camesasca, Tout l'oeuvre
peint d'Ingres (Paris, France, 1971), p. 107, no. 128f
Daniel Ternois, Ingres, Editions Nathan (Paris, France,
1980), no. 229, p. 182, repr.
Marjorie B. Cohn and Susan L. Siegfried, Works by J. A.
D. Ingres in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum , exh.
cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), no. 37,
p. 109, repr. p. 10
Patricia Condon, Ingres, In Pursuit of Perfection: the Art
of J.-A.-D. Ingres, exh. cat., Speed Art Museum
(Louisville, KY, 1983), p. 242
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,
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1990), pp. 112, 226, repr. b/w cat. no. 277
Annalisa Zanni, Ingres: catalogo completo dei dipinti,
Cantini Editore (Florence, Italy, 1990), p. 108, under no.
85
[Eugéne-Emmanuel Pineu-Duval] Amaury-Duval,
L'Atelier d'Ingres: Edition critique de l'ouvrage publié à
Paris en 1878 , ed. Daniel Ternois, Arthena (Paris,
France, 1993), repr. in b/w fig. 86, p. 115
Georges Vigne, Dessins d'Ingres: Catalogue raisonné
des dessins du musée de Montauban,
Gallimard/Reunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris,
France, 1995), p. 106
Georges Vigne, Ingres, Citadelles & Mazenod and
Abbeville Press (Paris, France; New York, NY, 1995), pp.
189-191, repr. as fig. 160
Gary Tinterow and Philip Conisbee, Portraits by Ingres:
Image of an Epoch, exh. cat., The Metropolitan
Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1999), pp. 275, 282, 284,
286-7
Andrew Carrington Shelton, "Art, Politics, and the
Politics of Art: Ingres's Saint Symphorien at the 1834
Salon", The Art Bulletin (December 2001), vol. LXXXIII
no. 4, pp. 711-739, p. 715, repr. as fig. 5
Daniel Ternois, Lettres d’Ingres à Marcotte
d’Argenteuil: dictionnaire, Librairie des Arts et MétiersEd. Jacques Laget (Nogent-le-Roi, France, 2001), p.
149 n. 25
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),
pp. 74-75, cat. #5, color repr.
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-
Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L.
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Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The
Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press
(New York, NY, 2003), no. 71, pp. 183-187, 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. 71, pp. 191195, repr. in color
"The Object of Art Museums", Whose Muse? Art
Museums and the Public Trust, ed. James Cuno,
Princeton University Press/Harvard University Art
Museums (Princeton, NJ / Cambridge, MA, 2004), pp.
49-75, p. 64, repr. as fig. 8
Vincent Pomarède, Stéphane Guégan, Louis-Antoine
Prat, and Eric Bertin, Ingres 1780-1867, exh. cat.,
Editions Gallimard (Paris, France, 2006), pp. 241-242,
repr. as ill. 175
Susan L. Siegfried, Ingres: Painting Reimagined, Yale
University Press (New Haven, 2009), p. 361, repr. in b/w
p. 363 as fig. 218
Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XIXe siècle,
Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2011), p. 179
Exhibition History
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, Musée Jules Cheret, Nice,
03/01/1931 - 03/28/1931
Chinese sculpture, bronzes, jades, paintings and
drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, PreColumbian art : selected from the collection of
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum,
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Cambridge, 10/01/1943 - 02/28/1944
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
Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century
British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of
the Fogg Art Museum , National Museum of Western
Art, Tokyo, 09/14/2002 - 12/08/2002
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
HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition:
Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 10 Rotation 2), Harvard
Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge,
10/15/2010 - 11/06/2010
HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition:
Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 11 Rotation 2), Harvard
Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 10/07/2011 11/05/2011
Subjects and Contexts
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