LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Graphite

Measurements:

11.85 in. (30.10 cm.) (height) by 8.86 in. (22.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed at a later date in graphite, lower left: Ingres Del.

Exhibited:

Montauban, Hôtel de Ville, Exposition des Beaux-Arts, 1862, no. 564 (as Portrait de jeune fille);; Montauban, Hôtel de Ville, Exposition des Beaux-Arts, 1877, no. 377 (as Portrait de jeune fille)

Literature:

H. Lapauze, Le Roman d'amour de M. Ingres, Paris 1910, p. 268 (mentioned by Ingres in an undated letter written from Rome by 1814);; P. Viguié, ‘Dans le sillage d'Ingres,’ Revue historique et littéraire du Languedoc, 1947, p. 232, no. 15;; H. Naef, ‘Ingres portraitiste de Letizia Murat’, Bulletin du Musée Ingres, December 1957, no. 3, pp. 14-15;; D. Ternois, Les dessins d'Ingres au Musée de Montauban, les portraits, vol. III, Paris 1959, no. 139, as Letizia Murat;; H. Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres, Bern 1977, vol. I, Chapter 41, pp. 389-90, no. 121, reproduced fig. 12; vol. IV, pp. 220-221, no. 121, reproduced

Provenance:

The artist, until 1862,; by whom given to Bernard Debia,; by descent to his daughter, Mme Emile Delmas, née Lucile Debia,; by descent to her son, Louis Delmas,; by inheritance to his cousin, Louis Vincent,; by descent to his son, Dr. Max Vincent,; by whose widow sold to Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, 1967,; purchased by Mr. Harvey L. Karp, New York