
Portrait of Jean-Louis Robin
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · c. 1810
Provenance
Ownership history
- Jean-Louis Robin, France (died 1846) [according to Naef 1977]; given or bequeathed to Robin's relative M. Merandon, Autun [according to Naef 1977]; sold to Eugene Froment-Delormel for Amaury-Duval (died 1885), France, 1875 [according to Naef 1977]; bequeathed to Eugene Froment-Delormel (died 1900), Paris; by descent to his daughter, Mme. Mazeran [according to Naef 1977]; given to her cousin, Maurice Bouts, 1902 [according to Naef 1977]. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 29, 1927, lot 31 to Cesar de Hauke, France, for 7,000 francs [according to Naef 1977]; sold to Emily Crane Chadbourne (1871-1964), Washington D.C., 1927 [according to Naef 1977]; given to the Art Institute, 1953.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago," 1961, cat. 86.
- New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 76, pl. XXXI.
- Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, "Ingres Centennial Exhibition," February 12-April 9, 1967, cat. 13 (ill.).
- Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Ingres in Rome: A Loan Exhibition from the Musée Ingres, Montauban, and American Collectors," 1971, p. 128, cat. 144 (ill.); traveled to New York, Wildenstein and Company, the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Kansas City, Mo., the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art.
- Dayton, Ohio, Dayton Art Institute, "French Artists in Italy, 1600-1900," cat. 44 (ill).
- Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch," May 23-August 22, 1999, p. 171, cat. 44 (ill.), cat. by Gary Tinterow, Philip Conisbee, et. al.; traveled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 27, 1999-January 2, 2000.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gods and (Super)heroes: Drawing in an Age of Revolution", November 16, 2017 - April 1, 2018.
Literature
Published references
- Henri Delaborde, Ingres: Sa Vie, Ses Travaux, Sa Doctrine (Paris, 1870), p. 312, no. 409.
- Henry Lapauze, Jean Briant Paysagiste, Maître d'Ingres, et le Paysage Dans l'Oeuvre de Ingres (Paris, 1911) pp. 48 and 51 (ill.).
- Morton D. Zabel, "Ingres in America," The Arts 16:6 (February 1930), pp. 369-82 and 436 (ill.).
- Frederick Cummings, "Romantic Portraitist, Three Drawings by Ingres," Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Art, XLIV (1965), pl. 70.
- Hans Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres, IV (Bern, 1977-1980), pp. 108-109, pl. 57.
- Daniel Ternois, Ingres (Milan, 1980), fig. 35.
- Ingres Portrait Drawings: 44 Works (New York, 1993), p. 14 (ill.).
- Uwe Fleckner, Abbild und Abstraktion (Mainz, 1995), p. 122 (ill.).
- Mathieu Meras and Alain Godeau, Colloque Ingres: Les Actes du Colloque Ingres on été edités par les Amis du Musée Ingres (Montauban,1969).
- Pierre Rosenberg, From Drawing to Painting: Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, David and Ingres (Princeton, 1996), pp. 120-121, fig. 9.
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