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

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

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Portrait of the architect Alexandre Bénard, full-length, with fragments of classical capitals, the Roman Forum beyond
ArtistFrench, 1780–1867
CultureFrench
Titles
  • 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 Fund
Object number2014.144
Not on view

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Department
Prints and Drawings
Object Type
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.
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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