Madame Hippolyte Flandrin (Aimée Ancelot) (1869): Art, History and Details

Madame Hippolyte Flandrin (Aimée Ancelot) (1869) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Jean-Paul Flandrin (French, 1811–1902).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Paul Flandrin drew this precise graphite portrait of his brother Hippolyte's widow, Aimée Ancelot, a few years after Hippolyte's death. The Flandrin brothers were both students of the painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), who was known for his own very precise and technically accomplished graphite portraits. In fact, at some point a false signature of Ingres's name was added on the drawing's left side, where it is still visible. Paul's brother, Hippolyte, is represented in the exhibition by a graphite study made in preparation for a religious painting [cat. no. 32].

Object facts

• Title: Madame Hippolyte Flandrin (Aimée Ancelot)
• Date: 1869
• Creator attribution: Jean-Paul Flandrin (French, 1811–1902)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: graphite heightened with white chalk or gouache
• Dimensions: Sheet: 36.6 x 28.6 cm (14 7/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
• Collection: DR - French
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 2008.351

Collection credit

Bequest of Muriel Butkin

Further reading listed by the museum

• Galerie Jacques Fischer-Chantal Kiener (Paris, France). Visages Du Dix-Neuvième Siècle : [exposition-Vente, 1 Décembre - 15 Décembre 1977, Galerie Jacques Fischer-Chantal Kiener]. Paris: La Galerie, 1977.
• Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.

View the collection record

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