Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
1780-1867
Odalisque with Lute Player and Attendant
1839
Black chalk and graphite, black and brown wash, with white and gray opaque watercolor.
19 1/4 x 24 1/4 inches (489 x 616 mm)
Thaw Collection.
2017.129
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Watermark: none.
"Drawn to Greatness" exhibition label: While Ingres did not travel to North Africa to make firsthand observations of harems, he was nonetheless intrigued by the idea of a domestic space reserved for women. He executed a painting based on his vision of the harem, entitled Odalisque with Slave (1839-40; now in the Harvard Art Museums)--which, due to illness, he enlisted students to complete. This meticulous drawing after the painting was intended to serve as the model for an engraving of the composition, but it was never used. There is some debate whether Ingres himself executed the sheet or if one of his students, the talented Charles Thévenin, was responsible for it.

Inscription: 

Signed, inscribed, and dated at lower left, "J. Ingres / Rom. 1839".

Provenance: 
Gustave Pereire, Paris; Sir Philip Sassoon (according to Louvre Catalogue); Georges Seligmann, New York; Dr. and Mrs. T. Edward Hanley, Bradford, Penn.; E.V. Thaw & Co., Inc., New York; The Norton Simon Foundation, Los Angeles; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
Associated names: 

Pereire, Gustave, former owner.
Sassoon, Philip, Sir, 1888-1939, former owner.
Seligmann, Georges, former owner.
Hanley, T. Edward, former owner.
Hanley, Tullah Innes, former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Drawn to Greatness : Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection. New York : The Morgan Library & Museum, 2017, no. 207, repr.
Denison, Cara D. et al. The Thaw Collection : Master Drawings and New Acquisitions. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1994, no. 66.

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