Signed, inscribed, and dated by the artist at lower left, "Ingres à Mr. Norry / Pere. / rome / 1817".
"Detroit Sees France from David to Courbet," Art Digest, February 1950, repr. 13.
Recent Additions to the Collection of John S. Newberry, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 1951, no. 14, repr. as frontispiece.
French Painting, 1100-1900, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1951, no. 156, repr.
Thirty-Three French Drawings from the Collection of John S. Newberry, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1960, no. 20, repr.
Ingres in American Collections, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, New York, 1961, no. 24, repr.
Hans Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres, Bern, 1977-1978, II, 232, IV, no. 216, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 269.
Watermark: none.
Ingres executed this portrait for the sitter's father, Charles Norry, the architect, one year before the young man's death.
Norry, Charles, former owner.
Rouart, Henri, 1833-1912, former owner.
Rouart, Alexis, former owner.
Rouart, Louis-Henry, former owner.
Newberry, John S. (John Stoughton), 1910-1964, former owner.
Von Bülow, Claus, 1926-2019, donor.
Von Bülow, Martha Crawford, 1931-2008, donor.