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