Portrait of the Forestier Family

Artists

Dimensions

actual: 30 x 37.2 cm (11 13/16 x 14 5/8 in.)

Provenance

*Presumably Mme Delphine Ingres, née Ramel, the artist's widow; sold by M.M...., Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 18, 1884, no. 29 (Fr 8,000); Fernand Guille, nephew of the artist; purchased from him by Edgar Degas, December 28, 1896 (Fr 5,000); his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, March 26-27, 1918, no. 208 (Fr 18,100); purchased at that sale by Bernheim Jeune, Paris; Scott and Fowles, New York; acquired from them by Grenville L. Winthrop, January 1922 ($4,500); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943. *Earlier scholars, e.g., Lapauze (1910, p. 112, n.1), who believed that the present sheet was executed as an early copy of the original version in the Louvre, cited the artist's father, Jean-Marie-Joseph Ingres (1755-1814), as it's first owner.