Object details
Object number
1.2.r.21
Creator(s)
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
(Montauban, 1780 - 1867, Paris)
Title
Portrait of a Man
Date
1824
Medium
Graphite and white heightening on tan wove paper mounted overall to 4-ply mat board
Dimensions
18.1 x 14.6 cm (7 1/8 x 5 3/4 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Signed and dated (recto, lower right corner): Ingres Del. / Florence 1824
Inscribed in black ink (verso, upper left): #85 / Pencil Drawing / Portrait of Hector Berlioz, the Composer (1803-1869) / (new mat on face - Dec. 27 '33)
Numbered in blue pencil (verso, upper center): 121 [in a circle]
Label from the Brooklyn Museum (back of frame): Ingres D. G. Kelekian March 26, 1921
Various numbers (back of frame): 126 (several times) and 11 (twice)
Inscribed in graphite on label affixed to backing: Mrs. John Gardner of Boston
Inscribed on label affixed to backing: Tel. Mo. 7474, Central. / C. M. May & Son, / Gilder & Picture Frame Manufacturer. / Steam Works-18; St Annis Court, Soho. / Pictures Cleaned, Lined and Restored.
Provenance
Collection of the painter and engraver François Flameng (1856–1923), Paris.
Purchased by Dikran Khan Kélékian (1868–1951) at the Flameng auction, Galerie Georges Petit on 26 May 1919 for $1800, lot 122. [as a portrait of the French composer, Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)]
Loaned by Kélékian to the Brooklyn Museum in 1921.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner at the American Art Association auction of Dikran Khan Kélékian's collection, New York on 30-31 January 1922 for $1950, lot 11, through American artist Louis Kronberg (1872–1965). (as a portrait of Berlioz)
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Bibliography
Arséne Alexandre. Collection Kélékian: Tableaux de L'Ecole Française Moderne (Paris, 1920), no. 43, ill. [as a portrait of the French composer, Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)]
American Art Association. The Notable Private Collection of Modern Pictures belonging to the widely known antiquarian Dikran Khan Kélékian of Paris and New York (New York, 30-31 January 1922), lot 11, ill.
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). Drawings: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1968), pp. 32-33, no. 15. (as Portrait of a Man)
George L. Stout. Treasures from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1969), pp. 134-35. (as Portrait of a Man)
Gallery
Short Gallery
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