Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
1780-1867
Study for "Oedipus and the Sphinx"
Pencil on wove paper; marked with compass points and squared for transfer.
19 15/16 x 15 3/8 inches (507 x 390 mm)
Gift of the Ian Woodner Family Collection in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Morgan Library.
1999.33

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Watermark: none.
This sheet is a preparatory study made in Rome in 1808 for the artist's painting "Oedipus and the Sphinx", now in the Louvre.

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Ingres sale stamp in blue ink at lower right corner (Lugt 1477).

Provenance: 
Ingres sale, Paris, 1867 (Lugt 1477); sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 15 June 1990, lot 60, repr.; Ian Woodner, New York.
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Woodner, Ian, former owner.

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