The Borghese Chapel in Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome

Prints and Drawings

1824

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
French, 1780–1867

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Artist: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Title: The Borghese Chapel in Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome
Origin: France
Date: Made 1824
Medium: Pen and brown ink and graphite and brush and gray and brown wash, with touches of red and ocher gouache, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid card, laid down on blue matboard
Dimensions: 170 × 137 mm
Credit Line: Promised gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
Reference Number: Obj: 202342

Charles Blanc, Ingres, sa vie et ses ouvrages (Veuve J. Renfouard, 1870), p. 244.
Daniel Ternois, “Ingres aquarelliste,” La revue des arts 2 (June 1955), p. 104 n. 7.
Hans Naef, in Ingres in Rome, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art, 1971), p. 42, under cat. 51.
Colin Eisler, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian (Phaidon, 1977), pp. 368, 372 n. 20.
Patricia Condon, “J.A.D. Ingres: Les dessins historiques,” Bulletin du Musée Ingres 67–68 (1995), no. 53.
Georges Viggne, Dessins d’Ingres: Catalogue raisonné des dessins du Musée de Montauban (Gallimard, 1995), p. 185, under no. 1024.
Patricia Condon, “Les dessins historiques achevés de J.-A.-D Ingres (deuxième partie),” Bulletin du Musée Ingres 69 (1996), pp. 8, 23.
Daniel Ternnois, Lettres d’Ingres à Marcotte d’ARgenteuil (Libraire des Arts et Métiers-Jacques Laget, 1999), pp. 30, 73 n. 12.
Daniel Ternois, Lettres d’Ingres à Marcotte d’Argenteuil: Dictionnaire (Jacques Laget, 2001), pp. 75, 77 n. 79, fig. 29.

Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, Ingres, 1867, cat. 232.
Paris, Hôtel de la Chambre Syndicale de la Curiosité et des Beaux-Arts, Ingres, 1921, cat. 160.
Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 56 (ill.).

Charles Marcotte d’Argenteuil; his daughter Mme Lengetil; by descent; sold, Christie’s, London, July 7, 2009, lot 55, to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago; promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.

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