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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1943.254
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People
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban
1780 - 1867 Paris)
Title
Joseph-Antoine de Nogent
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1815
Culture
French
Physical Descriptions
Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
46.99 x 33.34 cm (18 1/2 x 13 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
Signed: l.l.: Ingres [Rome] 1815
inscription: back of panel: Venue / [ ] [Neilles?] 54 Lyon.
Provenance
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1815; to the sitter,
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Joseph-Antoine de Nogent, bequest; to Jean-Joseph
Fournier (until some time between 1861-1878) bequest;
to his son , Fiorillo-del-Florido-Henri-Edmond Fournier
(until December 1895) bequest; to Baron Joseph Vitta
(1895-1935) sold; [through Martin Birnbaum] (1935); to
Grenville L. Winthrop (1935-1943) bequest; to Fogg Art
Museum (1943.)
Notes:
Vitta put the piece up for sale at Galerie Charpentier,
March 15, 1935, where it was lot 8; it was bought in at
that sale.
Winthrop paid Fr 200,000 for this piece and 1943.246.
Wildenstein also played an unspecified role in
Birnbaums' purchase of the painting.
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of
Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.254
Division
European and American Art
Contact
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[email protected]
Descriptions
Label Text: 32Q: 2100 19th Century , written 2014
Ingres had been established in Rome for nine years
when he painted this portrait. Commissions from
imperial patrons in that city had diminished due to
political unrest from the Napoleonic wars, and in order
to support himself he produced highly finished portrait
drawings of tourists, many of which are in the Harvard
Art Museums’ collections. This portrait of Nogent, a
prosperous friend of the artist, is Ingres’s smallest fulllength portrait painting, comparable in size and format
to his drawings. The details of the subject’s dress are
exactingly depicted; his greatcoat is thrown open like a
curtain to display his fine figure and doeskin trousers.
The portrait is painted on a wood panel, the hard
surface of which allows for a high degree of finish.
Critics accused Ingres of imitating the highly detailed
works by early Netherlandish artists, and he agreed,
noting: “I am very far, to be sure, from equaling those
great painters whom I always take as my model, but I
believe that in its execution my painting has some
resemblance to them.”
Publication History
Edmond Saglio, "Un Nouveau Tableau de M. Ingres,
liste complète de ses oeuvres", La Correspondence
Litteraire (February 5, 1857), p. 77
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. 434
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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), nos. 98,
147
Henry Lapauze, Les dessins de J.-A.-D. Ingres du
Musée de Montauban, J. E. Bulloz (Paris, France, 1901),
pp. 235, 248
Jules Momméja, Ingres, H. Laurens (Paris, France,
1904), p. 69
Henry Lapauze, Ingres, sa vie & son oeuvre, G. Petit
(Paris, France, 1911), p. 103
Exposition Ingres, exh. cat., Musée Jules Cheret (Nice,
France, 1931), no. 3, p. 11, repr. opposite p. 8
"La Curiosité", Le Bulletin de l'Art ancienne et Moderne
(April 1935), vol. LXVII, p. 175
Catalogue du tableaux...collection de M. le Baron
Vitta..., auct. cat., Galerie Charpentier (Paris, France,
1935), p. 6
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, no. 1
"Paintings from the Winthrop Collection", Bulletin of the
Fogg Art Museum , Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA,
March 1945), vol. X, no. 3, pp. 98-103, p. 102, repr.
Georges Wildenstein, Ingres, Phaidon Press (London,
England, 1954), no. 106
Hans Naef, "Notes on Ingres drawings", The Art
Quarterly (1957), vol. XX, pp. 183-184
Daniel Ternois, Les dessins d'Ingres au Musée de
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Montauban: les portraits, Les Presses Artistique (Paris,
France, 1959), above no. 158
Ingres, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris,
France, 1967), under no. 80
Ingres: Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Drawings,
Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American
Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge,
MA, 1967), p. x, under no. 29
Paintings from the Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
shown in conjunction with the Ingres Centennial
Exhibition, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge,
MA, 1967), repr. p. 102, no. II
Ingres e Firenze, exh. cat., Centro di Firenze (Florence,
Italy, 1968), under no. 13
Emilio Radius and Ettore Camesasca, L'opera
completa di Ingres, Rizzoli (Milan, Italy, 1968), no. 86
Agnes Mongan, "Ingres as a Great Portrait
Draughtsman", Colloque Ingres, ed. Mathieu Méras and
Alan Godeau, Amis du Musée Ingres (Montauban,
1969), pp. 134-50, p. 144
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), no. 87
Hans Naef, "Vier Unbekannte Ingres-Modelle", Gotthard
Jedlicka: Eine Gedenkschrift, ed. Eduard Hüttinger,
Orell Füssli Verlag (Zürich, Switzerland, 1974), pp. 6166, 70; repr. fig. 3
Hans Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres
(Bern, Switzerland, 1978), Vol. I, pp. 486-490; vol. II, p.
457
Marjorie B. Cohn and Susan L. Siegfried, Works by J. A.
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D. Ingres in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum , exh.
cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), no. 18,
pps. 10, 62, 64; repr. b/w p. 17, 63, 65
Dessins d'Ingres du musée de Montauban, exh. cat.,
Pavilion des Arts (Paris, France, 1989), repr. in b/w p.
26
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. 262
Georges Vigne, Dessins d'Ingres: Catalogue raisonné
des dessins du musée de Montauban,
Gallimard/Reunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris,
France, 1995), repr., p. 498
Georges Vigne, Ingres, Citadelles & Mazenod and
Abbeville Press (Paris, France; New York, NY, 1995),
repr. in b/w p. 134, fig. 106
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. 15
Anne Hollander, Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in
Painting, exh. cat., National Gallery Company Limited
(London, 2002), pp.124-125, repr. in color as fig. 94
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. 54, pp. 159-161, 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
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Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 54, pp.
167-168, repr. in color
Marcia R. Pointon, Brilliant Effects: A Cultural History of
Gem Stones and Jewellery, Yale University Press (New
Haven and London, 2009), p. 63, pl. 62
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,
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
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,
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
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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 - 04/07/2015
Subjects and Contexts
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