Portrait of the architect Alexandre Bénard, full-length, with fragments of classical capitals, the Roman Forum beyond

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Artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres(French, 1780–1867)French, 1780–1867

CultureFrench

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Portrait of the architect Alexandre Bénard, full-length, with fragments of classical capitals, the Roman Forum beyond

Date1818

Place depictedRome, Italy

MediumGraphite heightened with bodycolor on cream wove paper

DimensionsSheet: 18 1/4 × 14 in. (46.4 × 35.6 cm)
Mat: 20 1/4 × 15 3/4 in. (51.4 × 40 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Brown Foundation Accessions Endowment

Object number2014.144

Non exposé

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Prints and Drawings

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DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

ProvenanceThe sitter, Alexandre Bénard; by descent to his wife Madame A. Bénard, née Marie Louise Bidot, later Baronne Emil von Pappenheim; A. Marcel; [Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 8, 1886, lot 1]; Arthur Georges Veil-Picard; by descent to the Veil-Picard family; [Christie’s, Paris, “The Veil-Picard Collection,” June 23, 2010, lot 79]; [Christie's, London, “Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours,” July 10, 2014, lot 175]; purchased by MFAH, 2014.
Exhibition History"Dessins [d'Ingres] tirés de collections d'amateurs," Salon des Arts Unis, Paris, 1861.

"Instants choisis des XIXème et XXème siècles," Galerie Schmit, Paris, February 14–April 12, 2002.
Published References E. Galichon, 'Description des dessins de M. Ingres exposés au Salon des ArtsUnis', Gazette des Beaux-arts, 15 mars 1861, p. 357. H. Delaborde, Ingres, Paris, 1870, no. 260. H. Jouin, Musée de portraits d'artistes, Paris, 1888, p. 12. H. Lapauze, Les portraits dessinés de J.A.D. Ingres, Paris, 1903, p. 24, no. 5, ill. H. Lapauze, Ingres, Paris, 1911, p. 184. F. Elgar, Ingres, Paris, 1955, p. 4, fig. 7. H. Naef, 'Deux dessins d'Ingres, Monseigneur Cortois de Pressigny et le Chevalier de Fontenay', La Revue des Arts, VI, 1957, p. 246. H. Naef, Rome vue par Ingres, Lausanne, 1960, p. 27, note 52. H. Naef, 'Zwei ungedeute IngresZeichnungen, die Bildnisse des Ehepaars Alexandre Bénard', Panthéon, XXVI, 5, September-October 1968, pp. 399-409, fig. 1. H. Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.A.D. Ingres, Berne, 1977-1980, II, chap. 101, pp. 318-325, fig. 1; IV, no. 235, ill. G. Vigne, Dessins d'Ingres. Catalogue raisonné des dessins du musée de Montauban, Paris, 1995, p. 509, under no. 2816. G. Vigne, Ingres, New York, 1995, p. 92. Portraits by Ingres, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum, New York 1999, p. 527. D. Coekelberghs and E. Bertin, 'Lettres d'Alexandre Bénard, architecte, peintre et amateur d'art, Francois Joseph Navez (1822-1829)', Les Cahiers d'Histoire de l'Art, IV, 2006, pp. 95-97, ill. G. Tinterow and A.E. Miller, 'Ingres paysagiste', Ingres 1780-1867, exh. cat., Paris, Musée du Louvre, 2006, p. 88 Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: Signed in graphite, bottom left: Ingres Li[...]
Recto: Inscribed and dated in graphite, bottom right: Rome 1818
Interior of mat board: Inscribed in graphite, center: Ingres

Recto: Signed in graphite, bottom left: Ingres Li[...]

Catalogue raisonnéVigne 2816

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