Perseus and Andromeda

ca. 1819

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres French, 1780-1867

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Era of Revolution, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Ingres's vulnerable figure of Andromeda is the "classic" idealized figure study. The fact that she is being rescued by Perseus, the hero of Greek mythology, from a horrible death in the fangs of a dragon is less important than her sublime and innocent beauty. The tight control of the paint and smooth surfaces, as well as the subject matter, attest to the position Ingres held as the champion of neoclassicism in France.

Title Perseus and Andromeda

Artwork Date ca. 1819

Artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Life Dates 1780-1867

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

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Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 7 3/4 × 6 3/8 inches (19.7 × 16.2 cm) Framed: 12 7/8 × 11 1/4 × 2 1/2 inches (32.7 × 28.6 × 6.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 70.170

Markings

Signed Signed, lower left: Ingres

Marks Sticker, on verso: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Univ. Cambridge, Mass. loan 16161.2

Provenance

May 6-8, 1828, sold by (Ambroise Firmin-Didot, Paris, France) lot 25;
until at least 1838, Coutan (Paris, France);
by descent to Hauguet;
December 16-17, 1889, sold by (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France) auction Coutan-Hauguet, lot 21;
Henri Béraldi (Paris, France);
Muguet (Paris, France);
until at least 1908, Paul Gallimard (Paris, France);
(Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Germany);
McNeil Reid (Edinburgh, Scotland and London, England);
1930, purchased by (Knoedler and Lefevre Gallery, New York, New York, USA);
June 1933, purchased by David Cargill;
1941, (Etienne Bignou Gallery, New York, New York, USA);
Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA);
1970-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Ingres Exhibition. Exh. cat., Paris, 1867, no. 21.

Delaborde, Henri. Ingres: sa vie, ses travaux, sa doctrine. Paris, 1870, p. 208. [as in Hauguet Collection.]

Vauxcelles, L. "La Collection Gallimard." Les Arts (September 1908): p. 8, no. 81 (ill.).

London, Alex Reid & Lefevre Galleries. "French Paintings of the 19th Century: Ingres to Cézanne." 1933, no. 21 (ill.).

Wildenstein, G. Ingres. London and New York, 1954, p. 188, no. 125 (fig 77). [cited erroneously as still in Edinburgh, private collection].

Davies, M. National Gallery Catalogues: French School. London: 1957, p. 119.

Morgan, A. and H. Naef. Ingres Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967: Drawings, Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American Collections. Exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum. Cambridge, MA, 1967, no. 51 (ill.).

The Robert Hudson Tannahill Bequest to The Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1970, pp. 27, 42 (ill.).

Works by J.-A.-D. Ingres in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum. Exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum. Cambridge, MA, 1980, p. 76.

Love Everlasting: The Art of Romance through the Millenia. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, 2000, pp. 26-27, cat. 8 (ill.).

Degas to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masterpieces from The Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., the Phillips Collection. Washington D.C., 2000, pp. 84-85, 140 (ill.).

Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts: Masters of Impressionism and Modern Art. Exh. cat., Sogo Museum of Art, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukui Fine Arts Museum, and Yawatahama Citizen Gallery. Yokohama, Kitakyushu, Fukushima, Fukui, Yawatahama, 2001. pp. 11, 31, 34, 36 (fig. 4).

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