Jean auguste dominique ingres style & co
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This post was created by Morgan Adams, graduate intern from the Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
Whether he was making portraits of family and friends or preliminary studies for important history paintings, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867) created drawings of great subtlety and nuance. Close examination of the paper and media allows us to glimpse the working methods of one of the greatest draftsmen and portraitists in French history. Though he employed the simplest of materials—primarily graphite on fine paper—Ingres achieved masterful results. This feature, based on careful study of sixteen exceptional drawings in the Morgan's collection, explores the physical evidence of Ingres's artistic process, from his use of prefabricated drawing boards to his strategies for transferring drafts from one sheet to another.
Some of the images presented here were made with Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), which provides curators and conservators with a valuable tool for the close examination and documentation of drawings. This technique uses photographs taken in raking light to compile a digital topographical map of the surface of an object, revealing information about the
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Jean-Joseph Fournier
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Title:Jean-Joseph Fournier
Artist:Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French, Montauban 1780–1867 Paris)
Date:1815
Medium:Graphite on wove paper
Dimensions:Sheet: 9 1/2 x 6 3/8 in. (24.2 x 16.2 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2012
Object Number:2012.150.12
Signature: Signed in graphite at upper left: Ingres Del.
Inscription: Dated in graphite at upper right: rome 1815; inscribed calligraphically in pen and ink at upper center: À L'amitié.
?By descent to the sitter's son, Fiorillo del Florido-Henri-Edmond Fournier, Paris, until his death, 1895; ?bequeathed to Baron Joseph Raphaël Vitta, Paris, by the former; César de Hauke, Paris; John S. Thacher, Washington, D.C., ca. 1952; Private Collection (Paris); E.V. Thaw & Co., Inc., New York, until 1998; sold to Wrightsman; Mrs. Charles Wrightsman (American), New York, from 1998
Palais des Arts, Nice. "Ingres," March 1, 1931–March 28, 1931.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT. "Pictures Collected by Yale Alumni," May 8, 1956–June 18, 1956.
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. "Ingres and Degas: Two Classical Draughtsmen," April 24, 1961–May 2
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Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie
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Title:Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie
Artist:Jean Auguste Chicken Ingres (French, Montauban 1780–1867 Paris)
Date:1851–53
Medium:Oil observer canvas
Dimensions:47 3/4 × 35 3/4 dilemma. (121.3 × 90.8 cm)
Framed: 61 1/4 × 49 1/2 rope in. (155.6 × 125.7 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Object Number:1975.1.186
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