Cleveland Museum of Art

Madame Hippolyte Flandrin (Aimée Ancelot)

Jean-Paul Flandrin

Date

1869

Medium

graphite heightened with white chalk or gouache

Culture

France, 19th century

Department

Drawings

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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].

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