About This Artwork

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
French, 1780-1867

Madame Charles Gounod, 1859

Graphite on ivory wove paper (discolored to cream)
256 x 202 mm
Gift of Charles Deering McCormick, Brooks McCormick and Roger McCormick, 1964.78

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 32 (ill.).

Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 89 and 91, cat. 42 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 112-113, cat. 49 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Art Museum, March 10-May 16, 1986.

Tübingen, Germany, Kunsthalle, "Ingres and Delacroix," September 3-October 26, 1986; traveled to Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, November 1-December 21, 1986.

Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Portraits by Ingres," May 23-August 22, 1999, cat. 164 (ill. p. 493); traveled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 27, 1999-January 2, 2000.

Publication History

Hans Naef, “Portrait Drawings by Ingres in The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 1 (1966), pp. 66-83, fig. 2.

Hans Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres (Bern, 1979), III: pp. 288-300, and V: p. 374, no. 447 (ill.).

Bohumír Mráz, Ingres: Zeichnungen (Hanau, 1983), no. 69 (ill.).

Ownership History

Charles Gounod (1818-1893), Paris; by descent to his wife (née Anna Zimmermann; died 1906), Paris; by descent to her daughter, Baronne Pierre de Lassus Saint-Genies (née Jeanne Gounod; died 1946) [Washington D.C. 1999]; sold to Galerie Hector Brame, Paris, about 1942 [Washington DC 1999]; sold by Cesar de Hauke (Galerie Hector Brame) to Chauncey McCormick (1884-1954), Chicago, 1947 [Washington DC 1999]; by descent to his wife (née Deering; 1886-1965); by descent to her sons, Charles Deering McCormick (died 1994), Brooks McCormick (1917-2006), and Roger McCormick; given to the Art Institute, 1964.