Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Pope Pius VII in the Sistine Chapel
181474.5 x 92.7 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right: Ingres 1810 / ROM. [the last digit of the date, which originally read 1814, was erased and falsely restored sometime before 1921 as 1810]
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 601
Literature
Andrew Carrington Shelton, Ingres, London; New York, 2008, fig. 66
Uwe Fleckner, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 2013, fig. 33
Provenance
Commissioned by Charles-Marie-Jean-Baptiste Marcotte d'Argenteuil (1773-1864), Paris
his daughter, Mme Alexandre Legentil, née Marie Marcotte (1828-1920), Paris, by 1867
her niece, Mme Marcel Pougin de la Maisonneuve, née Elizabeth Marcotte (died 1939), Paris, by 1921
with Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1940-1949
sold June 1949 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
gift 1952 to NGA
Other works by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
The grand odalisque
1814
1814
The Virgin Adoring the Host
1852
1852
Odalisque in Grisaille
c. 1824-34
c. 1824-34
Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn, Princesse de Broglie
1853
1853
Aretino in the Studio of Tintoretto
1848
1848