Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
(France 1780–1867)
- Title
- The Hon. Frederick North
- Other titles:
- The Hon. Frederick North (later Earl of Guildford)
- Year
- 1815
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pencil
- Dimensions
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21.5 x 16.8cm sheet; 47.0 x 41.0 x 1.7cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed l.l., pencil "Ingres...". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of James Fairfax 1992
- Accession number
- 120.1992
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Using none of his reputed nine languages, including Latin and Greek, this aristocratic sitter communicates silently across two centuries. The artist who drew him, and with such a grasp of his proprietorial ease, has made a truly speaking likeness. Ingres trained with his father, a minor artist from Montauban, and at the Royal Academy in Toulouse. In 1796 he entered David's studio, winning the prestigious Prix de Rome. Between 1804 and 1822 Ingres lived and studied in Rome, his spiritual home. After the collapse of the Napoleonic Empire he earned his living from portraiture, mainly in pencil and almost exclusively of English tourists to the Eternal City. Some 450 examples are known. 'The Hon. Frederick North' boasts the key ingredients of the Ingres method: an engraved simplicity of outline, subtle modelling of interior form, and a direct engagement with the subject's face. The result is a an image of nearly photographic definition.
Art Gallery Handbook, 1999.
- Bibliography (18)
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Andrew Grimwade (Australia) (Editor), Gerard Vaughan (Australia) (Editor), Great philanthropists on trial : the art of the bequest, Melbourne, 2006, 131, 133 (colour illus.). fig.5
Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Peter Raissis (Australia) (Author), The James Fairfax collection of old master paintings, drawings and prints, Domain, 2003, 104-5, 105 (colour illus.). cat.no. 27
Uwe Fleckner (Author), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Cologne, 2000, 68, 69 (illus.). fig. 64
Terence Maloon (Australia) (Editor), Peter Raissis (Australia) (Editor), Michelangelo to Matisse: Drawing the figure, Domain, 1999, 167 (illus.). cat.no. 162
Gary Tinterow (Editor), Philip Conisbee, Portraits by Ingres: image of an epoch, New York, 1999, 190, 219.
Bruce James (Australia) (Author), Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Director), Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, Domain, 1999, 82 (illus.).
Ewen McDonald (Australia) (Editor), The Art Gallery of New South Wales collections, Sydney, 1994, 128 (colour illus.).
Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), Great gifts, great patrons: an exhibition celebrating private patronage of the Gallery, Sydney, 1994. no catalogue numbers
'Chronique des Arts' suppliment, Gazette des Beaux-Arts Mar 1993, Mar 1993, 31 (illus.). no. 152
Art Gallery of New South Wales Annual Report 1992 1992, 1992, 67.
Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), The James Fairfax collection of old masters, Domain, 1992. no catalogue numbers
Hans Naef (Author), Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres, Bern, 1977-1980, vol.1, 1977: 554-52, 544 (illus.); vol.4, 1977: 276 (illus.). no. 150
Agnew's, London (England, estab. 1817), French and English drawings 1800-1965, London, 1965, (illus.). cat.no. 20
The Burlington Magazine Jul 1964, Jul 1964, (illus.). advertisment
'"Ingres" portrait drawings of English sitters in Rome' by Hans Naef, pg.427-435, The Burlington Magazine Dec 1956, Dec 1956, 429. fig. 2
'"Ingres" portrait drawings of English people at Rome 1806-1820' by Brinsley Ford, pg.3-13, The Burlington Magazine Jul 1939, Jul 1939, 4.
Henry Lapauze (Author), Ingres, Paris, 1911, 172-74.
'M. Ingres' by Jules Varnier, L'artiste 1841, 1841, 307.
- Exhibition history (5)
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French and English drawings 1800-1965, Agnew's, London, 15 Jun 1965–10 Jul 1965.
The James Fairfax collection of old masters, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 25 Apr 1992–14 Jun 1992.
Great gifts, great patrons, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 17 Aug 1994–19 Oct 1994.
Michelangelo to Matisse: Drawing the figure, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 20 Nov 1999–27 Feb 2000.
The James Fairfax collection of old master paintings, drawings and prints, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 17 Apr 2003–20 Jul 2003.
