LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Pen and brown ink within black chalk framing lines

Measurements:

5.00 in. (12.70 cm.) (height) by 7.72 in. (19.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed in black chalk, lower left: Ing -, according to an old label attached to the backing the drawing is inscribed, verso: Ingres a l'honneur de prier son Excellence Monsieur le directeur de la Galarie Imp et Royle de lui acce.. la permission de dessiner d'apres un portrait de fi. et de faire autres croquis d'apres d'autres Portraits qu.. sont dans les..corridor.. Pitti -

Literature:

H. Delaborde, Ingres, sa vie, ses travaux, sa doctrine: d'apres les notes manuscrites et les lettres du maître, Paris 1870, pp. 327-328, under no. 18, no. 2; Linie, Licht und Schatten, Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, exhib. cat., Berlin 1999, p. 407, reproduced;; The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, exhib. cat., Venice 1999, p. 406, reproduced

Provenance:

The artist's studio stamp (L.1477);; with Galerie Petit, Paris, 1867;; Private Collection;; sale, New York, Christie's, 25 May 1984, lot 284