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Title:Study for the Figure of the Iliad in "The Apotheosis of Homer"
Artist:Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French, Montauban 1780–1867 Paris)
Date:ca. 1827
Medium:Graphite and black chalk heightened with white chalk on brown paper
Dimensions:12 3/8 x 10 5/8 in. (31.4 x 27 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971
Object Number:1972.118.219
Signature: Signed in graphite lower right: "Ingres"
Marking: Stamped in red ink lower right: collector's mark of Etienne-François Haro (Lugt 1241)
Etienne-François Haro; T. Edward Hanley; Eugene Victor Thaw
Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums. "Ingres Centennial Exhibition, 1867-1967: Drawings, Watercolors, and Oil Sketches from American Collections," February 12, 1967–April 9, 1967.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Nineteenth Century French Drawings and Prints," June 23–August 23, 1981.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "French Drawings Recently Acquired, 1975-1984," November 27, 1984–February 10, 1985.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," August 21–November 26, 1995.
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyons. "le drapé: De Léonard de Vinci à Maurizio Cattelan," November 30, 2019–March 8, 2020.
Éric Pagliano, Sylvie Ramond Drape : Degas, Christo, Michel-Ange, Rodin, Man Ray, Durer... cat. no. 116, pp. 197, 339, ill.
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