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Madame Désiré Raoul-Rochette

1830

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

(French, 1780–1867)

France, 19th century

Graphite on cream wove paper

Support: Cream wove paper

Sheet: 32.2 x 24 cm (12 11/16 x 9 7/16 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1927.437

Catalogue raisonné: Naef 334

Location

not on view

Did you know?

Ingres paid close attention to his sitter's costume: a fashionable open coat and dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves.

Description

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.

Artist biography

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

A leading exponent of French neoclassicism and the academic tradition, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was born in Montauban in 1780. At the age of ten he began studying art and music in Toulouse. In 1797 he entered the Paris studio of David (q.v.), where he became a favorite pupil and assistant. Barely a year later a dispute prompted Ingres to leave the studio and enroll in the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1801 he won the Prix de Rome, but lack of funds prevented him from departing for Italy until 1806. During fourteen years in Rome and four in Florence, Ingres painted romantic troubadour themes and became an admirer of Raphael. In 1824 he returned to Paris and exhibited at the Salon, where a fierce debate erupted between his supporters and those of Delacroix (q.v.). The controversial Salon of 1824 signaled Ingres's emergence as the leader of the neoclassical movement in France. At that point he effectively assumed the role of his former teacher David, now in exile. In 1833 the French government appointed Ingres vice president of the École des Beaux-Arts and president the following year. In 1834 he accepted the directorship of the French Academy in Rome and spent the next seven years painting and studying antique art in Italy. In 1841 he returned to Paris, where his paintings were greeted with thunderous critical acclaim. A major retrospective at the Exposition Universelle of 1855 confirmed his reputation but also aroused the hostility of young artists opposed to academic rules and conventions. During his later years Ingres continued his bitter rivalry with Delacroix, successfully blocking the latter's admission to the academy until 1857. Ingres died in 1867, leaving behind a circle of followers and a remarkable drawing style that was to inspire later artists, including Degas (q.v.) and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973).

Inscriptions

Inscription

inscribed, lower right, in graphite: Ingres à son ami et / confrere Monsieur / Raoul Rochette / 1830

Provenance

probably 1830-1854

Désiré Raoul-Rochette [1790–1854] (sitter’s husband), Paris, by descent to his wife, Madame Désiré Raoul-Rochette ¹

1854-1878

Madame Désiré Raoul-Rochette, née Antoinette-Claude Houdon [1790–1878], Paris, by descent to her grandson, Raoul Perrin

1878-1910

Raoul Perrin [1841–1910], by descent to his widow, Madame Raoul Perrin

1910-1912

Madame Raoul Perrin [?–1912], by descent to her son, Edmond Perrin

1912-by 1918

by descent to her son, Edmond Perrin [d. 1919]

1918-1927

(Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)

1927-

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Provenance Footnotes

¹All this information is from Naef 1979, 5:162. For an explanation of the descent of Ingres portrait drawings within the Raoul-Rochette family, see Naef 1963b, 20, whose source was the great grandson of Désiré Raoul-Rochette, André Perrin

Citations

Catalogue des tableaux études peintes, dessins, et croquis de J.-A.-D. Ingres [. . .] exposés dans les galeries du Palais de l’École Impériale des Beaux-Arts. Paris: Ad. Lainé et J. Havard, 1867. Mentioned: p. 97, no. 573

Blanc, Charles. Ingres, sa vie et ses ouvrages. Paris: Jules Renouard, 1870. Mentioned: p. 239

Delaborde, Henri. Ingres, sa vie, ses travaux, sa doctrine. Paris: Henri Plon, 1870. Mentioned: p. 310, no. 398

Montesquiou, Robert de. Roseaux pensants. Paris: Charpentier, 1897. Mentioned: p. 45

Exposition Ingres, organisée au profit du Musée Ingres. Paris: Georges Petit, 1911. Mentioned: p. 39, no. 138

Lapauze, Henry. Ingres, sa vie & son œuvre (1780–1867), d’après des documents inédits. Paris: Georges Petit, 1911. Mentioned: p. 286; Reproduced: p. 281

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. Reproduced: p. 56 archive.org

Hourticq, Louis. Ingres: l’œuvre du maître. Paris: Hachette, 1928. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 72, 121

Francis, Henry Sayles. "A Portrait Drawing by Ingres." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 15, no. 2 (1928): 27-29. Mentioned: pp. 27-29; Reproduced: cover www.jstor.org

Francis, Henry Sayles. "The Graphic Section." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 16, no. 9 (1929): 157-172. Mentioned: p. 159

Gibson, Katharine. "Ingres, the Artist." The Bystander (November 30, 1929): 4-5. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 4-5

Zabel, Morton Dauwen. “The Portrait Methods of Ingres.” Art and Archaeology 28, no. 4 (October 1929): 103-116. Mentioned: 115

Zabel, Morton D. “Ingres in America.” The Arts 16, no. 6 (February 1930): 369-382, 436. Mentioned: pp. 381-382; Reproduced: p. 374

Wilenski, R.H. French Painting. Boston: Hale ,Cushman & Flint, 1931. Mentioned: p. 196

Francis, Henry Sayles. "Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 19, no. 10 (1932): 166-175. Mentioned: pp. 168-169

19th-Century French Drawings. Exh. cat. San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1947. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 18, no. 12

Francis, Henry S. "Two Graphic Portraits by Ingres." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 35, no. 3 (1948): 36-37. Mentioned: p. 37

Wilenski, R.H. French Painting. Rev. ed. London: Medici Society, 1949. Mentioned: p. 181

Alazard, Jean. Ingres et l’ingrisme Paris: Albin Michel, 1950. Mentioned: p. 84; Reproduced: plate LXI

Alazard, Jean. Ingres. Firenze: Electa, 1950. Mentioned: p. 72; Reproduced: plate LXI

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 595 archive.org

Ingres in American Collections. Exh. cat. New York: Paul Rosenberg and Co., 1961. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 41, no. 39

Naef, Hans. Ingres und die Familie Raoul-Rochette. Zürich: Schweizer Monatshefte, 1963. Mentioned: p. 33-34; Reproduced: cover

Naef, Hans. “Ingres et la famille Raoul-Rochette.” Bulletin du Musée Ingres 14 (December 1963): 13-23. Mentioned: p. 17

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 165 archive.org

Schlenoff, Norman. "Ingres Centennial at the Fogg Museum." The Burlington Magazine 109, no. 771 (1967): 376-79.

Ingres. Exh. cat. Paris: Petit Palais, 1967. Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 220-21, no. 155

Mongan, Agnes and Hans Naef. Ingres Centennial Exhibition. Exh. cat. Cambridge, MA: Fogg Art Museum, 1967. Mentioned and reproduced: no. 66

Moore, Janet Gaylord. The Many Ways of Seeing: An Introduction to the Pleasures of Art. Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1968. Mentioned: p. 90; Reproduced: p. 91

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 165 archive.org

Mongan, Agnes. “Ingres as a Great Portrait Draughtsman.” In Colloque Ingres. Montauban: Amis du Musée Ingres, 1969. Mentioned: pp. 148, 151; Reproduced: p. 158

Wilenski, R. H. French Painting. 3rd rev. ed. New York: Dover, 1973. Mentioned: p. 181

Delpierre, Madeleine. “Ingres et la mode de son temps (De la possibilité de dater, par l’étude des costumes, ses portraits dessinés.” In Actes du colloque international Ingres et le néo-classicisme, 147-56. Montauban: Amis du Musée Ingres, 1975. Mentioned: p. 150; Reproduced: p. 151

Pansu, Evelyne. Ingres dessins. Paris: Chene, 1977. Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 170-71, no. 62

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 204 archive.org

Naef, Hans. Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres. Bern: Benteli, 1979. Mentioned and reproduced: vol. 3, pp. 98-99; vol. 5, pp. 162-63, no. 334

Condon, Patricia, Marjorie B. Cohn, and Agnes Mongan. In Pursuit of Perfection: The Art of J.-A.-D. Ingres, 146, 224 (ill.), no. 73. Exh. cat. Louisville, KY: J. B. Speed Art Museum, 1984. Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 146, 224, no. 73

Miller, Michael J. Drawing: A Glossary of Materials: Selections from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987. Mentioned: p. 9; Reproduced: p. 10

Tortora, Phyllis and Keith Eubank. A Survey of Historic Costume. New York: Fairchild Publications, 1989. Mentioned: p. 224; Reproduced: p. 225

J. A. D. Ingres, 1780–1867: Zeichnungen und Ölstudien aus dem Musée Ingres, Montauban. Exh. cat. Innsbruck, Aus.: Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, 1991. Mentioned: p. 30

Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler. "Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Portrait of Crescentia, Countess Zichy (later Countess Széchenyi) with a Parrot and a Camellia in a Mountainous Landscape." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 1 (1994): 3-17. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 3 www.jstor.org

Ribeiro, Aileen. Ingres in Fashion: Representations of Dress and Appearance in Ingres’s Images of Women. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. Mentioned: p. 72, 76, 179; Reproduced: p. 73

DeGrazia, Diane and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. Mentioned: p. 3, pp. 128-129, 290, no. 50; Reproduced: p. 129

Stokstad, Marilyn and Michael W. Cothren. Art History. Revised 2nd ed. Boston: Pearson, 2005. Reproduced: fig. 27-5.

Master Drawings. London: Colnaghi, 2013. Mentioned: p. 74

Stokstad, Marilyn and Michael W. Cothren. Art History. 5th ed. Boston: Pearson, 2014. Mentioned: pp. 952-953; Reproduced: p. 953

Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 164

Codell, Julie. “Convergences: Art History, Museums and Scholar-Agent Martin Birnbaum’s Transatlantic Art for the Public.” In Art Markets, Agents and Collectors: Collecting Strategies in Europe and the United States, 1550–1950, edited by Adriana Turpin and Susan Bracken, 316-27. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. Mentioned: p. 325n22

Exhibition history

Tableaux, études peintes, dessins, et croquis de J.-A.-D. Ingres. Galeries du Palais de l’École Impériale des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1867).

Exposition Ingres, organisée au profit du Musée Ingres. Galeries Georges Petit, Paris (April 26–May 14, 1911).

19th-Century French Drawings. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor (March 8–April 6, 1947).

Ingres in American Collections. Paul Rosenberg, New York (April 7–May 6, 1961).

Ingres Centennial Exhibition, 1867–1967. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA (February 12–April 9, 1967).

Ingres. Petit Palais, Paris (October 27, 1967–January 29, 1968).

In Pursuit of Perfection: The Art of J.-A.-D. Ingres. J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY (December 6, 1983–January 29, 1984); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (March 3–May 6, 1984).

French Art Since Eighteen Hundred. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 8-December 8, 1929).

Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 7, 1932-January 8, 1933).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 28-December 9, 1937).

Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 4-March 26, 1939).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-October 3, 1940).

The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 6-February 15, 1942).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 17-August 24, 1942).

19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 1, 1943).

19th-Century French Drawings. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (organizer) (March 8-April 6, 1947).

Exhibition of the Month: Components of Art: The Line. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 12-April 12, 1948).

Baron Gros, Painter of Battles: The First Romantic Painter. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 8-April 15, 1956).

Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).

Aspects of Drawing. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 10-April 2, 1961).

Exhibition of Works by Ingres. Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, NY (organizer) (April 6-May 6, 1961).

Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).

Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 1-March 24, 1965).

French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1965-February 16, 1966).

Ingres: Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Drawings, Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American Collections. Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (organizer) (February 12-April 9, 1967).

Ingres. Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (October 27, 1967-January 29, 1968).

Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968).

Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Early Nineteenth-Century Genre and French Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 31-August 19, 1979).

National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983).

Treasures on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10-July 24, 1988).

Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-January 12, 1992).

French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).

Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).

Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014).

Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-April 30, 2023).

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