Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
The Architect André-Marie Chatillon
1809
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
The Architect André-Marie Chatillon
1809
Physical Qualities
Graphite, Sheet: 225 x 164 mm. (8 7/8 x 6 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Blanche Adler Memorial Fund, Nelson and Juanita Greif Gutman Collection, and Gift of Ben Wunsch; and SCM Corporation Fund
Object Number
1979.43
When this exacting portrait was made in 1810, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and André-Marie Chatillon (1782–c. 1854) were rising stars at the French Academy in Rome. Brilliant and prolific, both went on to successful, if often challenging careers, Ingres as the era’s most celebrated history painter, Chatillon as the architect of large public commissions. Like Chatillon, Ingres passionately admired classical prototypes,
depicting his friend with short-cropped hair and stoic features, his chiseled profile sharply outlined against a background of dense crosshatching, like an ancient gem. He indicates the soft, open shirt in but a few expressive lines, drawing attention to the sitter’s elegant face.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1979; Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, 1978; Anonymous private collector; Galerie Lorenceau, Paris, 1968; Feilchenfeldt, Zurich; Sotheby's, London July 8, 1964, no. 82; Mrs. Edward F. Hutton, Westbury, Long Island; M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1952; Dr. Otto Wertheimer, Paris; M. de Marguerie (son-in-law of Charles Ledoux); Charles Ledoux, Château Brignac, Maine-et-Loire; Mme. de Valpinçon, before 1888 (according to Courboin, 1895).
Galerie Lorenceau, Paris, 'Les Maîtres du dessin', 1968, no. 1.
Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach, 'An Exhibition of French Painting, David to Cézanne', March 11-31, 1953, no. 3; circulated to University of Miami, Florida.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June, 1980; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August 1980.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Baltimore Collects: French and Italian Drawings, 1715-1814', Oct. 16-Dec. 2, 1984.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Master Drawings by French Artists in the Museum's Collection," 9 May - 23 July, 1989.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'As Artists See Us: Drawings from the Museum Collection', May 14-Aug. 11, 1991.
Jay Fisher et al, 'The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas,' The Baltimore Museum of Art, June 19-Sept. 11, 2005; circulated to Birmingham Museum of Art and Tacoma Art Museum through Sept. 2006.
BMA, Jacobs Wing rotation, 30 January 2019 -
Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach, 'An Exhibition of French Painting, David to Cézanne', March 11-31, 1953, no. 3; circulated to University of Miami, Florida.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June, 1980; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August 1980.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Baltimore Collects: French and Italian Drawings, 1715-1814', Oct. 16-Dec. 2, 1984.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Master Drawings by French Artists in the Museum's Collection," 9 May - 23 July, 1989.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'As Artists See Us: Drawings from the Museum Collection', May 14-Aug. 11, 1991.
Jay Fisher et al, 'The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas,' The Baltimore Museum of Art, June 19-Sept. 11, 2005; circulated to Birmingham Museum of Art and Tacoma Art Museum through Sept. 2006.
BMA, Jacobs Wing rotation, 30 January 2019 -
Fisher, Jay McKean, et al. The Essence of Line: French drawings from Ingres to Degas. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005, p. 264-65, ill.
Hans Naef, Die Bildiszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres, Berne, 1977, vol. I, pp. 203-205 and vol. IV, cat. no. 58, p. 110.
Hans Naef, 'Eighteen Portrait Drawings by Ingres', Master Drawings, IV:3 (1966), p. 258.
François Courboin, Inventaire des dessins, photographies et graveurs relatifs à l'histoire general de l'art, legues au departement des estampes de la Bibliothèque nationale par M. A. Armand, vol. I, Lille, 1895, no. 10, 100.
Carlson, Victor, and Carol Hynning Smith. Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art. New York, NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1979, pp. 17, ill.
Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower right, in graphite "Ingres del. vit. Romae MDCCCX"
