Identification and Creation Object Number 1943.378 People Jean

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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1943.378
People
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban
1780 - 1867 Paris)
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Title
Rape of Europa
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1865
Culture
French
Physical Descriptions
Medium
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite, with gum varnish,
on tracing paper, laid down
Dimensions
30.1 x 42.5 cm (11 7/8 x 16 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
Signed: Signed, graphite, l.l: "J. Ingres E.it sur un Trait
de vase grec. 1865."
inscription: l.l: J Ingres fit. sur un trait de vase grec
1865
l.c. Pline parle d'un tableau d'Antyphile qui represente
Europe / Peut-être cette Composition est elle une
imitation de cet ouvrage celebre / ou une autre de
Pythagoras Peintre et Sculpteur.
lr: Neptune couronné d'une feuille de Pin / il ordonne à
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la mer d'être calme.
Provenance
Sold by the artist to Étienne-François Haro, October 13,
1866; consigned by him the Ingres sale, Hôtel Drouot,
Paris, April 27, 1867, no. 15 (Fr 1,700); purchased at that
sale by Victor Baltard, Paris; his daughter Paule
Arnould, Reims; her son P. Arnould, Paris; Arthur Bowen
Davies, New York, possible in 1897; Ferargil Gallery,
New York, February 1926; Stephen Carlton Clark, New
York, not before February 1926; Edouard Jonas of Paris,
Inc.; not before December 1928; acquired from him by
Grenville L. Winthrop, April 1930; his bequest to the
Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of
Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.378
Division
European and American Art
Contact
[email protected]
Publication History
[Reproduction only], La chronique des arts et de la
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curiosité, La chronique des arts et de la curiosité,
(Paris, April 28, 1867)., pg. 137, no. 15
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), pg. 268,
no. 173
Henry Lapauze, Les dessins de J.-A.-D. Ingres du
Musée de Montauban, J. E. Bulloz (Paris, France, 1901),
pg, 250
Jules Momméja, Collection Ingres au Musée de
Montauban, Inventaire General des richeses d'art de la
France. Province, Monuments civils (1905), pg. 160
above no. 2188
Waldemar Déonna, "Ingres et l'imitation de l'antique",
Pages d'Art (October and December 1921), pg. 315
Royal Cortissoz, "Ingres: A Fascinating Souvenir of His
Last Phase", New York Herald Tribune (New York,
February 21, 1926), pg. 10, repr.
under "List of Accessions and Loans", Bulletin of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art (December 1927), 22, no.
12, pg. 318
Royal Cortissoz, The Painter's Craft, Charles Scribner &
Sons (New York; London, 1930), pp. 193-96
Agnes Mongan, "Drawings by Ingres in the Winthrop
Collection", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (July-December
1944), ser. 6, 26, pp. 410-12, fig. 21
Norman Schlenoff, Ingres, ses sources littéraires,
Presses Universitaires de France (Paris, France, 1956),
pl. 35
Robert Rosenblum, The International Style of 1800: A
Study in Linear Abstraction, Garland Publishers, Inc.
(New York, (1956) 1976), pg. 168 n. 6
Martin Birnbaum, The Last Romantic (New York, NY,
1960), pg. 167
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Hans Naef, "Parmi les gravures de la collection Ingres",
Bulletin du Musée Ingres, Musée Ingres (Montauban,
December 1965), 18, pg. 6
Emilio Radius and Ettore Camesasca, L'opera
completa di Ingres, Rizzoli (Milan, Italy, 1968), pp. 11819, no. 168, repr.
Daniel Ternois and Ettore Camesasca, Tout l'oeuvre
peint d'Ingres (Paris, France, 1971), pp. 118-19, no. 169,
repr.
Jon Whiteley, Ingres, Oresko Books Ltd. (London,
England, 1977), pg. 87, no. 69, repr.
Sarah Symmons, Flaxman and Europe: The Outline
Illustrations and their Influence, Garland (New York, NY
and London, England, 1984), p. 179 n. 61
Siegfried Salzmann, Mythos Europa: Europa und der
Stier im Zeitalter der Industriellen Zivilisation, exh. cat.,
Ellert & Richter (Hamburg, 1988), pp. 206-7; repr.
Dr. Christine Ekelhart-Reinwetter, J. A. D. Ingres 1780-
1867: Zeichnungen und Olstudien aus dem musée
Ingres, Montauban, Ferdinandeum/Albertina
(Innsbruck/Vienna, Austria, 1991), p. 266; repr. fig. 113
Patricia Condon, "Les Dessins Historiques achevés de
J.A.D. Ingres" (part one), Bulletin du Musée Ingres,
Amis du Musée Ingres (Montauban, France, 1995), no.
67/68, pp. 3-86, cat. 94; repr. fig. 74
Georges Vigne, Dessins d'Ingres: Catalogue raisonné
des dessins du musée de Montauban,
Gallimard/Reunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris,
France, 1995), pg. 165, repr.
Georges Vigne, Ingres, Citadelles & Mazenod and
Abbeville Press (Paris, France; New York, NY, 1995), pg.
319, fig. 280
Patricia Condon, "Les Dessins Historiques achevés de
J.A.D. Ingres" (part two), Bulletin du Musée Ingres,
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Amis du Musée Ingres (Montauban, France, 1996), no.
69, pp. 3-38, pp. 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 15, 31
Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the
Fogg Art Museum , Harvard University Press
(Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 257, repr.
Eric Bussière, Michel Dumoulin and Gilbert Trausch,
ed., Europa: The European Idea and Identity, from
Ancient Greece to the 21st Century, Mercatorfonds
(Antwerp, 2001), p. 212, repr. (color)
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), cat. no. 83, repr. (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. 83, repr.
Pascale Picard-Cajan, Ingres et l'antique: le laboratoire
secret, Musée Ingres (Montauban, 2006), p. 54, repr. p.
55 (color)
Pascale Picard-Cajan, Ingres et l'antique: l'illusion
grecque, exh. cat., Actes Sud (Arles, 2006), p. 195, ill.
40 (color)
Lilas Sharifzadeh, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
Variations sur un thème. La Grande Odalisque
Découverte d'une réplique autographe, exh. cat.,
Galerie Hubert Duchemin (Paris, 2013), p. 42; repr. in
color as ill. 23, p. 43
Exhibition History
General loan, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, 11/24/1927 - 12/05/1928
Chinese sculpture, bronzes, jades, paintings and
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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
Ingres Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967, Fogg Art
Museum, Cambridge, 02/12/1967 - 04/09/1967
Works by J.-A.-D. Ingres in the Collection of the Fogg
Art Museum , Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge,
10/17/1980 - 12/07/1980
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
Around Antique: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
(Teaching Gallery) S421, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur
M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/14/2010 09/04/2010
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