Back to browse highlights

  • 3 of 4 results highlights by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Madame Félix Gallois

Fullscreen

Related Content

Italian Peasant Woman with Basket on her Head

Italian Peasant Woman with Basket on her Head

Bust of a Gypsy Girl

Bust of a Gypsy Girl

Admiral Sir Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew

Admiral Sir Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew

Portrait of Jean-Joseph Fournier

Portrait of Jean-Joseph Fournier

Portrait of Armand Bertin

Portrait of Armand Bertin

Browse current and upcoming exhibitions and events.

Exhibitions:

Events:

Events:

Madame Félix Gallois

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

Date:
1852
Culture:
French
Medium:
Graphite with touches of gold in oil to highlight jewelry, on buff wove paper.
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 5/8 x 10 9/16 in. (34.6 x 26.8 cm) Framed: 24 x 18 x 1 1/4 in. (60.9 x 45.7 x 3.2 cm.)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number:
1975.1.647

This artwork is not on display

  • Description

    Ingres made portraits of his contemporaries all his life. Whether working in oil on canvas or graphite on paper, he brought painstaking concentration to the task, creating likenesses of stunning verisimilitude. Nathalie Gallois was a cousin of Ingres's second wife Delphine Ramel, whom he married in 1852. With customary ease and the touch of a pencil, Ingres presents his bourgeois relative with patrician finery, detailing the folds and ruffles of her elegant dress. Sparing no adornments, Ingres has highlighted Nathalie's jewelry in gold paint and traced the lacey hair ornament with meticulous precision. The sitter's porcelain skin and comely expression made the drawing a perfect gift for Monsieur Gallois, as detailed in the artist's affectionate inscription.

  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Signature: Signed, dated and inscribed in graphite at the lower left: J. Ingres Del. / à Son cher cousin / et ami Monsieur / Gallois-- / 1852" [J. Ingres drew (this) / for his dear cousin / and friend Monsieur / Gallois-- / 1852]

    Inscription: Inscribed (upper right): "nathalie Gallois"

  • Provenance

    Félix Gallois (husband of the sitter [1812-1891]); the Marquis de Biron, by 1911; Biron sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 9-11 June 1914, lot 35; to [Paulme]; Maurice Fenaille, by 1931; his daughter Madame François de Panafieu, née Antoinette Fenaille, Paris; Panafieu sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 9 February 1959 (postponed to 23 June 1959), lot 7; [Arthur Goldschmidt (?), Paris]; to [Marianne Feilchenfeldt, Zürich]. Acquired by Robert Lehman from Feilchenfeldt in October 1960.

  • See also
    Who
    What
    Where
    When
    In the Museum
    Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
    MetPublications
150000265

Close