LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Pen and brown ink and brown and blue grey wash over traces of graphite

Measurements:

11.65 in. (29.60 cm.) (height) by 7.48 in. (19.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed in pen and brown ink, lower right: Ingres, bears red chalk numbering, verso: 11 and attribution: Ingres and in pencil: à M me. Leport (?)

Exhibited:

Paris, Salon des Arts Unis, Dessins (d'Ingres) tirés de collections d'amateurs,1861;; Paris, Galerie André Weil, Ingres, 1949, no. 35;; Paris, Musée Carnavalet, Chefs-d’oeuvre des collections parisiennes, 1952-53, no.153

Literature:

H. Delaborde , Ingres, sa vie, ses travaux, sa doctrine, Paris, 1870, p. 308, no. 382;; French Painting 1774-1830: The Age of Revolution, exhib. cat. Grand Palais, Paris, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1975, p. 500;; H. Toussaint, Les portraits d’Ingres, peintures des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 1985, p. 37, no. V1, reproduced;; G. Tinterow and P. Conisbee, Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch, 1999, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Arts, p.66

Provenance:

Eugène Guillaume;; Hector Lefuel;; Private Collection, France;; sale, Paris, Tajan, 6 November 2003, lot 103