Charles François Mallet, Civil Engineer by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
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Charles François Mallet, Civil Engineer

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1809

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Charles François Mallet (died 1853). Possibly the Royal Family of Wurttenberg [a letter from Jacob Hirsch in the curatorial file]. Baroness Wilhelm-Carl von Rothschild (née Matilde von Rothschild; died 1924), Frankfurt-am-Main; probably to her daughter Baroness Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (née Minna Caroline von Rothschild; died 1903) [letter from Jacob Hirsch]. Sold by Dr. Jacob Hirsch, New York to the Art Institute, 1938.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Springfield, Mass., Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, "David and Ingres," November 20-December 15, 1939; traveled to New York, M. Knoedler and Company, January 1940, and Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Museum of Art, February 1940.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Old and New," 1946, p. 19, cat. 30, pl. XI, cat. by Carl Schniewind.
  • Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, "De David à Toulouse-Lautrec," 1955, n.p., cat. 80, pl. 5.
  • Kansas City, Mo., The Nelson Gallery, "Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition," December 1958, cat. 17.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition," 1961, cat. 85.
  • New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 75.
  • Cambridge, Mass, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, "Ingres: Centennial Exhibition," February 12-April 9, 1967, n.p., cat. 14 (ill.).
  • Paris, Petit Palais, "Ingres," October 27, 1967-January 29, 1968, p. 66, cat. 38 (ill.).
  • The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Ingres in Rome," 1971, cat. 145; traveled to New York, Wildenstein and Company; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Kansas City, Mo., the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "European Portraits 1600-1900 in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 8-September 11, 1978, pp. 115-117, cat. 30 (ill.).
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Canova and French (1758-1823)," January 15-20, 1985.
  • Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Portraits By Ingres: Image of an Epoch," May 23-August 27, 1999, cat 42 (ill.); traveled to New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 27, 1999-January 2, 2000.

Literature

Published references

  • Charles Blanc, Ingres, Sa Vie et Ses Ouvrages (Paris, 1870), p. 246.
  • Henri Delaborde, Ingres: Sa Vie, Ses Travaux, Sa Doctrine (Paris, 1870), p. 305, no. 359.
  • Henry Lapauze, Les Dessins de J.A.D. Ingres du Musée de Montauban (Paris, 1901), p. 267.
  • Henry Lapauze, Ingres, Sa Vie & Son Oeuvre (Paris, 1911), p. 98 (ill.).
  • "Ingres Considered this Drawing as a Potboiler," Art Digest (October 1, 1938), p. 13.
  • Alexandrine Miller, "Ingres' Three Methods of Drawing," Art in America 26 (1938), p. 15.
  • Daniel Catton Rich, "Monsieur Mallet by Ingres," Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 32:5 (September-October 1938), pp. 66-69 (cover ill.).
  • Lillian Combs, "Reports of the Department for 1938, Prints and Drawings," Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago (March 1939), pp. 21 and 170.
  • Ella S. Siple, "Art In America: Exhibitions of French Art in New York and Springfield," The Burlington Magazine LXXV (December 1939), pp. 249-250 (ill.).
  • Jean Alazard, Ingres et l'Ingrisme (Paris, 1950), no. XVIII (ill.).
  • Kurt Seligmann, "A Letter," The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly XLVI:3 (September 15, 1952), pp. 44-45, fig. 2.
  • Maud Kemper Riley, "An Exhibition for Paris," The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly (April 1, 1955), p. 28.

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