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Gallery Text
Ingres painted this likeness of his good friend in her
summer home in Enghien, near Paris. He had met
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Augustine-Modeste-Hortense and her husband,
Frédéric, in Italy, during his tenure as the director of the
French Academy in Rome; Frédéric soon became an
avid collector of the artist’s work and later served as
curator of drawings at the Louvre. After returning to
Paris, Ingres often sought refuge at his friends’ lake
house, which he called “paradise.”
With its oval format, limited color range, and the
striking realism of its sitter, this painting can easily be
compared to daguerreotype photography. The
compositional structure is identical to that of Ingres’s
later self-portrait, which was based on a photograph
and hangs in a nearby gallery. However, rather than
imitating the new medium of photography, this work,
with its subtle fluctuation between clarity and
blurriness, functions as a painterly challenge to the
early limitations of photographic technologies.
Identification and Creation
Object Number
1943.249
People
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban
1780 - 1867 Paris)
Title
Augustine-Modeste-Hortense Reiset
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Portrait of Mme. Frederic Reiset
Classification
Paintings
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Work Type
painting
Date
1846
Culture
French
Location
Level 2, Room 2100, European and American Art, 17th–
19th century, Painting and Photography in an Era of
Social Change
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Physical Descriptions
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
62.2 x 49.5 cm (24 1/2 x 19 1/2 in.)
framed: 80 x 67 cm (31 1/2 x 26 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
Signed: l.r.: J. Ingres p.it / Enghein 1846
stamp: back of canvas: [per file:] un Spectre Solitaire /
Quai de l'Ecole 18 / et 38 / Rue Nve Vivienne / COL[ ].
label: back of frame
Provenance
Marie-Eugène-Frédéric Reiset and his wife, Hortense
Reiset, by descent; to thier daughter, Comtesse
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Adolphe-Louis-Edgar de Ségur-Lamoignon, Méry-surOise, by descent; to her son Louis-Maire-FrédéricGuillaume de Ségur-Lamoignon, until 1932. Grenville L.
Winthrop [acquired through Martin Birnbaum via André
Weill], New York, NY, May 19, 1935, bequest; to Fogg
Art Museum, 1943.
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of
Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.249
Division
European and American Art
Contact
[email protected]
Publication History
Paul ("Bibliophile Jacob") Lacroix, "M. Ingres à
l'Exposition Universelle", Revue Universelle des Arts
(October 1855 - March 1856), vol. II, p. 208
Claude Vignon, Exposition Universelle de 1855 , A.
Fontaine (Paris, France, 1855), p. 192
Exposition Universelle de Paris en 1855: Explication
des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, gravure,
lithographie et architecture des artistes vivants
etrangers et francais, exh. cat., Vinchon (Paris, France,
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1855), no. 5048
Théophile Silvestre, Histoire des artistes vivants
français et étrangers, études d'après nature (Paris,
France, 1856), pp. 38-39
Visites et études de S.A.I. le Prince Napoléon au Palais
des Beaux-Arts ou description complete de cette
exposition (Paris, France, 1856)
Edmond Saglio, "Un Nouveau Tableau de M. Ingres,
liste complète de ses oeuvres", La Correspondence
Litteraire (February 5, 1857), p. 78
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
Olivier Merson and Emile Bellier de la Chavignerie,
Ingres, sa Vie et ses Oeuvres, J. Hetzel (Paris, France,
1867), pp. 23, 117
Charles Blanc, Ingres, sa vie et ses ouvrages, Vve. J.
Renouard (Paris, France, 1870), p. 233
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), no. 151,
p. 239
Eugene Montrosier, Peintres modernes: Ingres, H.
Flandrin, Robert Fleury, Ludovic Baschet (Paris, France,
1882), p. 19
Charles-Phillippe, Marquis de Chennevières-Pointel,
Souvenirs d'un Directeur des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France,
1885), pp. 91, 94
Henry Lapauze, Les dessins de J.-A.-D. Ingres du
Musée de Montauban, J. E. Bulloz (Paris, France, 1901),
pp. 115, 236, 249
Jules Momméja, Ingres, H. Laurens (Paris, France,
1904), p. 103
Jules Momméja, Collection Ingres au Musée de
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Montauban, Inventaire General des richeses d'art de la
France. Province, Monuments civils (1905), p. 139,
above no. 1832
Georges LeComte, "Ingres, son oeuvre, son influence",
Le Correspondent (1911), vols. II and III, pp. 337, 350
Henry Lapauze, Ingres, sa vie & son oeuvre, G. Petit
(Paris, France, 1911), pp. 384-385, 442, repr. p. 397
The Masterpieces of Ingres (1780-1867): Sixty
Reproductions of Photographs from the Original
Paintings, Gowans & Gray, Ltd. (London, England,
1913), repr. as pl. 29
Léon Rosenthal, De Romanticism au Realisme (Paris,
France, 1914), p. 180
[Eugéne-Emmanuel Pineu-Duval] Amaury-Duval, "M.
Ingres", La Renaissance de l'art Français (May 1921),
vol. IV, no. 5, repr p. 252
C. H. Collins Baker, "Reflections on the Ingres
Exhibition", The Burlington Magazine (July 1921), vol.
XXXIX, p. 41, repro pl. IIC
Henry Lapauze, Exposition Ingres, exh. cat., Galerie
Georges Petit (Paris, France, 1921), no. 40
Exposition retrospective d'art français, exh. cat.,
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, 1926), no. 61
Louis Hourticq, Ingres: l'oeuvre du maitre, Hachette
(Paris, France, 1928), p. vii, repro p. 91
Morton Zabel, "The Portrait Methods of Ingres", Art and
Archaeology (1929), XXVIII, p. 115
Jacques Emile Blanche, "Le XIXe Siecle", Gazette des
Beaux-Arts (1932), vol. VII, repro p. 85 fig. 9
Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900, exh. cat., Royal
Academy of Arts (London, England, 1932), no. 277
Alexandrine Miller, "Ingres' Three Methods of Drawing
as Revealed by his Crayon Portraits", Art in America
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(January 1938), vol. XXVI, p. 13 no. 22
Walter Pach, Ingres, Harper and Brothers Publishers
(New York, NY and London, England, 1939), p. 103
Edward King, "Ingres as Classicist", The Journal of the
Walters Art Gallery (1942), vol. V, p. 103 n. 8
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. 3
Agnes Mongan, "Drawings by Ingres in the Winthrop
Collection", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (July-December
1944), ser. 6, 26, pp. 338 n. 1, 406
Anthony Bertram, Jean-August-Dominique Ingres
(London, England, 1949), p. XXXI
Jean Alazard, Ingres et l'Ingrisme, Michel (Paris,
France, 1950), p. 106
Frank Elgar, Ingres, Les Editions du Chene (Paris,
France, 1951), fig. 73 p. 12
French Drawings: Masterpieces from Five Centuries,
exh. cat., Plantin Press (New York, NY, 1952 - 1953), p.
47, under no. 117
Brinsley Ford, "Ingres' Portrait Drawing of the Reiset
Family", The Burlington Magazine (1953), vol. XCV, p.
356, nn. 3, 4
Georges Wildenstein, Ingres, Phaidon Press (London,
England, 1954), no. 250, p. 216, pl. 96
Agnes Mongan, "Ingres et Mme Moitessier", Bulletin du
Musée Ingres, Amis du Musée Ingres (Montauban,
France, July 1957), p. 4
Daniel Ternois, Les dessins d'Ingres au Musée de
Montauban: les portraits, Les Presses Artistique (Paris,
France, 1959), above no. 169
Martin Birnbaum, The Last Romantic (New York, NY,
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1960), p. 194
Ingres, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris,
France, 1967), p. 300, under no. 232
Ingres: Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Drawings,
Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American
Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge,
MA, 1967), under nos. 88, 94
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. IV
Emilio Radius and Ettore Camesasca, L'opera
completa di Ingres, Rizzoli (Milan, Italy, 1968), no. 142,
pp. 112-113, repr.
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), no. 84, p. 240
Daniel Ternois and Ettore Camesasca, Tout l'oeuvre
peint d'Ingres (Paris, France, 1971), no. 143, pp. 112-113,
repr.
Kenneth Clark, The Romantic Rebellion: Romantic
Versus Classic Art (New York, NY, 1973), pp. 136, 138,
fig. 99
Jon Whiteley, Ingres, Oresko Books Ltd. (London,
England, 1977), no. 58
Hans Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres
(Bern, Switzerland, 1978), vol. II, p. 179; vol. III, pp. 350
fig. 4., 351
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. 47,
pps. 132-134; repr. in b/w p. 133; color p. 21; text pp. 10,
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Kristin A. Mortimer, Harvard University Art Museums: A
Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art
Museums/Abbeville Press (Cambridge, MA; New York,
NY, 1985), no. 201, p. 177, repr. in b/w
Maria Jedding-Gesterling, ed., Hairstyles: A Cultural
History of Fashions in Hair from Antiquity up to the
Present Day, Hans Schwarzkopf GmbH (Hamburg,
Germany, 1988), pp. 185-186, repr. in b/w no. 339
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. no. 281
Annalisa Zanni, Ingres: catalogo completo dei dipinti,
Cantini Editore (Florence, Italy, 1990), cat. 94; repr. p.
122
[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), p. 336, n. 12
José Luis Díez, Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (1815-
1894), exh. cat., Museo del Prado (Madrid, Spain, 1994),
pp. 25-26, repr. in color
Uwe Fleckner, Abbild und Abstraktion: die Kunst des
Porträts im Werk von J.-A.-D. Ingres, Verlag Philipp von
Zabern (Mainz, Germany, 1995), pp. 218-219, fig. 79
Georges Vigne, Ingres, Citadelles & Mazenod and
Abbeville Press (Paris, France; New York, NY, 1995), p.
250; repr. in color p. 252 as fig. 206
19th century European paintings, and sculpture
including master drawings, auct. cat., Christie's, New
York (New York, NY, May 22 1996), p. 58, under no. 48
Aileen Ribeiro, Ingres in Fashion: Representations of
Dress and Appearance in Ingres's Images of Women,
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Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, CT and
London, England, 1999), repr. p. 115; pp. 141-143, 147
Daniel Ternois, ed., Lettres d'Ingres à Marcotte
d'Argenteuil, Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français
(Nogent-le-Roi, France, 1999), p. 248
Valérie Bajou, Monsieur Ingres, Editions Adam Biro
(Paris, France, 1999), pp. 308-309, #208, repr. in color
Gary Tinterow and Philip Conisbee, Portraits by Ingres:
Image of an Epoch, exh. cat., The Metropolitan
Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1999), p. 362, repr. as
fig. 207; pp. 364, 421, 469 under no. 151, 519 n. 106,
554
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. 16
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. 74, pp. 192-193, repr. in color
Christopher Riopelle, Harvard's Winthrop Collection:
Nineteenth-Century Paintings and Drawings from the
Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, exh. cat., National
Gallery Company Limited (London, 2003), p. 30, cat. 17,
ill.
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. 74, pp.
202-203, repr. in color
Paul-Louis Roubert, L'image sans qualités: Les beaux-
arts et la critique à l'épreuve de la photographie: 183912 of 14
1859, Monum (Paris, France, 2006), p. 97, repr. in color
Exhibition History
Exposition Universelle de Paris, 1855 , Palais des
Beaux-Arts, Paris, Paris, 05/15/1855 - 12/31/1855
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
Exposition Retrospective d'Art Français, Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 07/03/1926 - 10/03/1926
Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900, Royal Academy of
Arts, London, 01/01/1932 - 03/05/1932
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
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
Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector,
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/23/1969 03/31/1969
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
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,
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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: 2100 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums,
Cambridge, 11/01/2014
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