LOT DETAILS
Materials:
graphite
Measurements:
10.00 in. (25.40 cm.) (height) by 7.48 in. (19.00 cm.) (width)
Markings:
signed and dated in graphite 'Ingres/ à Rome 1811' (l.r.)
Exhibited:
Paris, Grand Palais, Exposition centenaire de l'art français de 1800 à 1899, 1900, no. 1070. Paris, Fondation de la Maison de Santé du Gardien de la Paix, Galerie Jacques Seligmann & fils, Exposition de portraits par Ingres et ses élèves, 1934, no. 9 (catalogue by C. Sterling). Paris, Galerie Alfred Daber, Pour mon plaisir. Tableaux, aquarelles, dessins d'Ingres à Vuillard, 1954, no. 2. New York, Paul Rosenberg & co., Ingres in American Collections, 1961, no. 8. New Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, Odyssey of an Art Collector, 1966-1967, no. 174.
Literature:
C. Blanc, 'Ingres. Sa vie et ses ouvrages', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, XXII, no. 1, May 1867, ill. between pp. 426 and 427. C. Blanc, Ingres, Paris, 1870, p. 245. H. Delaborde, Ingres, Paris, 1870, no. 312. V. Fournel, Les artistes français contemporains. Peintres - sculpteurs, Tours, 1884, p. 51. H. Lapauze, Les dessins de J.-A.-D. Ingres du Musée de Montauban, Paris, 1901, p. 266. H. Lapauze, Ingres, Paris, 1911, p. 111. H. Naef, 'Eighteen Portrait Drawings by Ingres', Master Drawings, IV, no. 3, 1966, pp. 272-74, 279, fig. 9. H. Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres, Bern, 1977, I, p. 223, fig. 2, IV, no. 63, ill. S. Wolohojian with A. Tahinci, A Private Passion. 19th-Century Painting and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthorp Collection, Harvard University, exhib. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and elsewhere, 2003, p. 150, under no. 49 (entry by C. Riopelle).
Provenance:
The sitter and her husband, Jean-Pierre Granger (1779-1840); by descent to their daughter, Palmyre Granger, married Meurice (1819-1874); her husband, Paul Meurice (1818-1905); his adoptive daughter, Marie Ozenne-Meurice (1860-1937). with Galerie Alfred Daber, Paris, 1935. Robert Bruce, London. with Galerie Alfred Daber, Paris, by 1952, where purchased by Frederick Stafford in 1954.