Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780–1867)

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Struck by a mysterious illness, Antiochus lies in bed near death. His grieving father, who has recently taken Stratonice as his wife, summons a doctor. Noticing that the sight of the young woman quickens Antiochus’s pulse and that passion causes his sickness, the doctor describes the youth’s predicament to his father, who selflessly offers Stratonice to his son. The subject, both a love story and an example of parental devotion, enjoyed considerable popularity well into the 1800s.

Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-October 16, 1966).

Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions

Ingres: Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Drawings, Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American Collections. Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (organizer) (February 12-April 9, 1967).

Ingres: Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967. Drawings, Watercolors and Oil Sketches from American Collections

The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection. Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, CA (September 12, 2012-January 7, 2013); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-July 7, 2013).

The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection

London, New Burlington Galleries. Exhibition of Masters of French 19th Century Painting (1936), no. 1, lent by Alphonse Kann.

Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum. Ingres Centennial Exhibition 1867-1967 (1967), no. 78, 79 (repr.).

New York, Frick Collection. Ingres and the Comtesse d'Haussonville (1985-86), no. 55, 72-76 (repr.).

Getty Villa (9/12/2012 - 1/7/2013), The Cleveland Museum fo Art (2/24/2013 - 5/19/2013), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Québec (6/13/2013 - 9/8/2013):  "The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection"

The Cleveland Museum of Art (09/ 12/2012 - 01/07/2013 Getty Villa Malibu, CA; 02/24/2013 - 07/07/2013 Cleveland Museum of Art); "The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection"

A horizontally oriented oil painting depicts a room. On the right, Antiochus, a man, lies under red bedsheets while his father stands over him in a cream tunic. This scene is mostly cast in shadow. A diagonal light focuses on the left side of the painting, where Stratonice, a woman wearing a light-pink tunic, leans against a gray column, chin resting on the back of her right hand as she looks down. All have medium-light skin tones.

Ingres estate sale, Paris, Drouot, 27 April 1867 (lot 6), Stratonice, Répétition presque terminée du même sujet [Stratonice], 1834, ff 4,220. Mme Ingres. Louis Bazille, Montpellier (1870). Pierre Leenhardt, Paris sale, Georges Petit, 4 May 1922 (lot 29, repr.), Stratonice, ou la maladie d'Antiochus. Alphonse Kann, Paris. Seized by the Germans in 1941. Recovered after WWII. Sold by Kann's heirs. Anonymous sale, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 12 May 1950 (lot 30, repr.), Stratonice, ou la maladie d'Antiochus. Jacques Seligmann, New York. Purchased by the cma on 3 January 1966.

The architectural elements in this painting are highly finished, while the figure of Stratonice on the left appears unresolved. This painting is an unfinished version of the subject, which Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres completed later on a larger scale.

Stratonice

The doctor behind the bed is diagnosing Antiochus's mysterious illness.

Antiochus

Although this historical subject was popular among artists, most painters chose a later moment in the story. Ingres distinguished his picture by choosing a different part of the narrative to paint.

Antiochus and Stratonice

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