Madame Désiré Raoul-Rochette
1830
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780–1867)
Drawings
Madame Désiré Raoul-Rochette, 1830. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780–1867). Graphite on cream wove paper; sheet: 32.2 x 24 cm (12 11/16 x 9 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1927.437 While living in Rome, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres began making commissioned graphite portraits as a way of providing additional income. He aspired to a career as a history painter, however, and made such works only as gifts for friends after achieving professional success. This sheet was a gift for its sitter's husband, a famous archaeologist to whom Ingres dedicated it at lower right. The subject of the drawing, Antoinette-Claude Houdon, was the youngest daughter of Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828), an important 18th-century French sculptor. Using the style he developed for such works, the artist drew in stark, confident lines, with no apparent erasing or correction. Ingres paid close attention to his sitter's costume: a fashionable open coat and dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves.
- Maker/Artist
- Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- graphite on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 32.2 x 24 cm (12 11/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: inscribed, lower right, in graphite: Ingres à son ami et / confrere Monsieur / Raoul Rochette / 1830
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1927.437
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- French Art Since Eighteen Hundred, Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830, Drawings from the Museum Collection, Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection, Drawings from the Museum Collection, The Silver Jubilee Exhibition, French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections, Drawings from the Museum Collection, 19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans, 19th-Century French Drawings, Exhibition of the Month: Components of Art: The Line, Baron Gros, Painter of Battles: The First Romantic Painter, Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition, Aspects of Drawing, Exhibition of Works by Ingres, Drawings, Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands, French Drawings, Ingres: Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Drawings, Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American Collections, Ingres, Drawings, Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Early Nineteenth-Century Genre and French Prints and Drawings, National Schools of Style, Treasures on Paper, Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure, French Drawings from the Collection, Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, <em>Tableaux, études peintes, dessins, et croquis de J.-A.-D. Ingres</em>. Galeries du Palais de l’École Impériale des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1867)., <em>Exposition Ingres, organisée au profit du Musée Ingres</em>. Galeries Georges Petit, Paris (April 26–May 14, 1911)., <em>19th-Century French Drawings</em>. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor (March 8–April 6, 1947)., <em>Ingres in American Collections</em>. Paul Rosenberg, New York (April 7–May 6, 1961)., <em>Ingres Centennial Exhibition, 1867–1967</em>. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA (February 12–April 9, 1967)., <em>Ingres</em>. Petit Palais, Paris (October 27, 1967–January 29, 1968)., <em>In Pursuit of Perfection: The Art of J.-A.-D. Ingres</em>. J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY (December 6, 1983–January 29, 1984); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (March 3–May 6, 1984).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 101A Prints & Drawings
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