LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pencil and black chalk, with stumping, on paper

Measurements:

15.51 in. (39.40 cm.) (height) by 11.18 in. (28.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed Ingres (lower left) and inscribed in various places with notations regarding lighting

Exhibited:

Louisville, Kentucky, The J.B. Speed Art Museum, In Pursuit of Perfection: The Art of J.A.D. Ingres, 1983, no. 17; ; New York, Jan Krugier Gallery, The Presence of Ingres, Important Works by Ingres, Degas, Picasso, Matisse and Balthus, 1988, no. 28; ; Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin & Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Linie, Licht und Schatten. Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 1999, no. 69, illustrated in colour in the catalogue; ; Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, 1999, no. 81, illustrated in colour in the cataogue; ; Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, no. 95, illustrated in colour in the catalogue; ; Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La passion du dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, no. 86, illustrated in colour in the catalogue; ; Vienna, Albertina Museum, Goya bis Picasso. Meisterwerke der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2005, no. 14, illustrated in colour in the catalogue; ; Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das Ewige Auge - Von Rembrandt bis Picasso. Meisterwerke der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2007, no. 80, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Provenance:

Private Collection, Paris; Gallery Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York; John R. Gaines, Louisville, Kentucky (sold: Sotheby's, New York, 18th November 1986, lot 27); Purchased at the above sale by the late owner