Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
French, 1780–1867
Comtesse Charles d’Agoult (born Marie de Flavigny) and Her Daughter Claire d’Agoult
INV-2449
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
French, 1780–18671849
Comtesse Charles d’Agoult (born Marie de Flavigny) and Her Daughter Claire d’Agoult
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres French, 1780–1867 →drawings (visual works)paper
Date
1849
Medium
Graphite, heightened with white opaque watercolor, with touches of yellow watercolor, on off-white wove paper, lined to secondary wove paper
Dimensions
Primary support: 48.5 × 39.9 cm (19 1/8 × 15 3/4 in.); Secondary support: 49.9 × 41.5 cm (19 11/16 × 16 3/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
One of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s largest and most ambitious portrait drawings, this work depicts the important Parisian society hostess, writer, and critic the Comtesse Marie d’Agoult and her daughter Claire.
Ingres typically produced his portrait drawings without preparation and in a single sitting. This work, in contrast, required at least two sittings and three preparatory studies. The drawing is notable for its evocation of the richly furnished interior of d’Agoult’s home. The artist selectively applied yellow watercolor to enhance objects and added white heightening to the sitters’ dresses to suggest the sheen of silk.
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