Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
1863
Medium
Pen and brown ink, on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
23.2 × 17.8 cm (9 3/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
82049
Art Historical Context
This delicate pen-and-ink portrait by Henri Lehmann captures the renowned French Neoclassical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres in 1863, when the elder artist was in his early eighties. Created on ivory wove paper with precise brown ink lines, the drawing exemplifies the intimate, observational studies favored by 19th-century artists for recording likenesses of colleagues and mentors. Lehmann, who trained under Ingres, employs a refined linear technique that echoes his teacher’s own emphasis on clarity and contour. Measuring just over 9 by 7 inches, the work belongs to the tradition of gr...
About the Artist
Henri Lehmann
French, Kiel 1814–1882 Paris