Madame Désiré Raoul-Rochette
1830
- Medium
- graphite on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 32.2 × 24 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-190809
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 …
Provenance
Wade Fund, 1927.437
Registry history
- 1830 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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