About This Artwork

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
French, 1780-1867

Charles X in his Coronation Robes, c. 1828

Watercolor, over graphite, on ivory laid paper, squared in red chalk and graphite, perimeter mounted on cream wove paper and wrapped on board
261 x 199 mm
Worcester Sketch Fund, 1960.352

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

St. Petersburg, Russia, "Exposition centennale de l’art Français à St. Petersbourg," 1911, cat. 182.

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, "Painted Papers: Watercolors from Dürer to the Present," March 15-April 15, 1962, cat. 50.

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 78.

Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, "Ingres Centennial Exhibition, 1867–1967: Drawings, Watercolors, and Oil Sketches from American Collections," February 12-April 9, 1967, cat. 63, cat. by Hans Naef and Agnes Mongan.

Austin, Tex., University of Texas, "18th and 19th Century French Drawings and Prints with a Selection of Drawings by J.A.D. Ingres," February 9-March 20, 1977, cat. 7, cat. by Agnes Mongan.

Louisville, Ky., The J. B. Speed Art Museum, "In Pursuit of Perfection: The Art of J.A.D. Ingres," December 6, 1983-January 29, 1984, cat. 68, cat. by Patricia Condon et. al.; traveled to the Kimball Art Museum, Fort Worth, Tex., March 3-May 6, 1984.

Publication History

Henry Lapauze, Les Dessins de J.-A.-D. Ingres du Musée de Montauban (Paris, 1901), p. 250.

Daniel Ternois, Les Dessins d’Ingres au Musée de Montauban: Les Portraits (Paris, 1959), no. 22.

Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1978), pp. 90-91, no. 4F5.

Daniel Ternois and Ettore Camesasca, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Ingres (Paris, 1984), p. 123.

Ownership History

M.P. Rosenberg [according to Joachim 1978]. Sold by James Coates to the Art Institute, 1960.