Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
1780-1867
Odalisque with Lute Player and Attendant
1839
19 1/4 x 24 1/4 inches (489 x 616 mm)
Black chalk and graphite, black and brown wash, with white and gray opaque watercolor.
2017.129
Thaw Collection.
Notes
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.
"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.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed, inscribed, and dated at lower left, "J. Ingres / Rom. 1839".
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.
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.
Denison, Cara D. et al. The Thaw Collection : Master Drawings and New Acquisitions. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1994, no. 66.
Classification
Century Drawings
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