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Louise Girard

The Architects Achille Leclère and Jean-Louis Provost, 1850

Description

Maker

  • After Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1780-1867, French, designer
  • Louise Girard, 1787-after1850, French

Title

The Architects Achille Leclère and Jean-Louis Provost

Year

1850

Medium

Roulette and stipple engraving on wove paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • crayon manner

Supports

  • Heavy weight cream wove paper

Dimensions

Plate: 39.7 x 30 cm (15 5/8 x 11 13/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Lettered LL: "M.me Girard Sc.t Paris 1850"; and LR: "Ingres D.vit a Rome 1812"

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Smith College Museum of Art

Object Number

50.059

Projects & Publications

Publications

Pilgrims of Beauty

Art and Inspiration in 19th-Century Italy
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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Pilgrims of Beauty

February 3 - July 8, 2012

Dedicated to the esteemed French architect Achille-François-René Leclère, this print reproduces a graphite drawing made by Ingres in 1812, in which Leclère (on the left) is seen in the company of his friend and colleague Jean-Louis Provost. Both had studied first in Paris under architect Charles Percier, and Ingres’s portrait may celebrate the reunion of these fellow students in Rome in 1812 as pensionnaires at the French Academy. This work is a private testament to Ingres’s friendship with both men. In reproducing the original drawing as a print, Louise Bathilde Girard used a stipple engraving technique to capture the delicate and intimate character of the original drawing.

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