About This Artwork

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, follower of
French, 1780-1867

Portrait of Luigi Edouardo Rossi, Count Pellegrino, c. 1820

Oil on canvas
25 1/4 x 21 1/8 in. (65.6 x 55 cm)
Inscribed center right: Ingres pinx 1821
Gift of Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge in memory of her Grandfather, Franklin F. Spencer, 1963.204

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

The Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report, 1962–63 (Chicago 1963), p. 13.

The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 57, 4 (1963–64), reproduced on front cover.

Ownership History

Count Pellegrino-Rossi, Geneva and Paris; by family descent to Montagnon collection, Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France [according to letter from T. P. Grange to John Maxon, dated October 14, 1967, in curatorial file]; unnamed intermediary dealer [according to letter citied above]; T. P. Grange, London by 1963; sold to the Art Institute, 1963.