Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Montauban 1780-1867 Paris)

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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE ELIOT HODGKIN, SOLD BY THE GEORGIAN GROUP AND THE VICTORIAN SOCIETY (Lots 77-78, 97, 99, 126 and 150)

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Montauban 1780-1867 Paris)

A nude youth looking up to the right

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Montauban 1780-1867 Paris)
A nude youth looking up to the right
signed 'Ing.'
black lead, the corners made up
9 x 4 5/8 in. (228 x 118 mm.)

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Lot Essay

A tracing of this figure is at Montauban (G. Vigne, Dessins d'Ingres. Catalogue raisonné des dessins du musée de Montauban, Paris, 1995, no. 1172, p. 210). These drawings are connected with the figure of King Henri IV of France in an unrealised project for L'Encontre de Henri IV et Sully known through a series of studies at Mountauban. Another study of the same figure in reverse is in the same collection (G. Vigne, op. cit., no. 1173). The Duc de Sully (1559-1641) was one of the closest advisors to Henri IV and his minister of finance.

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