Category:Joseph-Antoine Moltedo (Ingres - Metropolitan Museum of Art)

**Joseph-Antoine Moltedo**
	painting by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
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Instance of	painting
Depicts	man;
Material used	oil paint; canvas (painting surface); canvas; linen; stretcher;
Genre	portrait;
Location	Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York City, New York
Creator	Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres;
Owned by	Louisine Havemeyer;
Location of creation	Rome;
Collection	Metropolitan Museum of Art (collection highlight, 1929–);
Inventory number	29.100.23 (Metropolitan Museum of Art);
Inception	c. 1810;
Width	58.1 cm;
Height	75.2 cm;
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	Q12142540; ; The Met object ID: 438818; Google Arts & Culture asset ID: iQGkFIwksixbDg
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Joseph-Antoine Moltedo (Ingres - Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres: Joseph-Antoine Moltedo

Artist



Alternative names	Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres; Dominique Ingres; Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres; Ingres
Description	French painter, politician and violinist
Date of birth/death	29 August 1780	14 January 1867
Location of birth/death	Montauban	Paris
Authority control	: Q23380 VIAF: 76327826 ISNI: 0000 0001 2140 0757 ULAN: 500028037 LCCN: n81047807 NLA: 35222301 MusicBrainz: 220c7a73-bc8e-4a12-b6f3-a0e3aa2b1b05 WGA: INGRES, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Open Library: OL126930A DBNL: ingr002 GND: 11855560X SELIBR: 208917 SUDOC: 02727330X BNF: 12015522j NDL: 00444253 BIBSYS: 90237078 NKC: jn19990003898 Léonore: LH/1335/27 BNE: XX976852 CiNii: DA02012689 KulturNav: 1f7fcc2d-3e4f-42ad-8a8c-3ac1bf25642d RKD: 41067 Koninklijke: 068656092 WorldCat

Title

Joseph-Antoine Moltedo

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Description

Caption from the museum

Corsican by birth, Moltedo was an enterprising businessman and inventor, agent to the French clergy at the Vatican, and director of the Roman post office from 1803 until 1814. Painted during one of the most productive periods of Ingres’s nascent career, this refined portrait belongs to a series of commissions he received from French officials in Napoleonic Rome. They are distinguished by the inclusion of Roman views as backdrops—in this case the Appian Way and the Colosseum—as well as by stormy gray skies, a Romantic conceit that serves as a foil to the calm and secure expressions of the men portrayed.

Date

circa 1810

Medium

oil paint, canvas, canvas, linen, stretcher

Dimensions

Height: 75.2 cm (29.6 in)

; Width: 58.1 cm (22.8 in)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

	Native name	Metropolitan Museum of Art
	Location	Manhattan, New York City, United States of America
	Coordinates	40° 46′ 44″ N, 73° 57′ 49″ W
	Established	1870
	Web page	www.metmuseum.org
	Authority control	: Q160236 VIAF: 126238294 ISNI: 0000 0004 1936 8761 ULAN: 500125157 LCCN: n79129629 NLA: 36247933 WorldCat