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Madame Désiré Raoul-Rochette

Madame Désiré Raoul-Rochette by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780–1867)

Medium

graphite on cream wove paper

Dimensions

32.2 × 24 cm

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings

Museum

Cleveland Museum of Art

Credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Accession Number

1927.437

Rights

Public Domain

Tags

male

About this artwork

While living in Rome, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres began making commissioned graphite portraits as a way of providing additional income. He aspired to a career as a history painter, however, and made such works only as gifts for friends after achieving professional success. This sheet was a gift for its sitter's husband, a famous archaeologist to whom Ingres dedicated it at lower right. The subject of the drawing, Antoinette-Claude Houdon, was the youngest daughter of Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–...

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