A study for the head of the figure of Hope for one of the stained-glass windows for the Chapel of Nôtre-Dame de la Compassion at the Plaine des Sablons, outside Paris. King Louis-Philippe commissioned the chapel from Fontaine to mark the spot on the Paris to Neuilly road where his son Ferdinand-Phillipe, Duc d'Orleans was killed in a tragic accident in July 1842. It was initially planned to entrust the decoration to a team of painters, not including Ingres, but in the event he alone produced the designs for the stained-glass windows. These were executed from his cartoons by the factory at Sèvres within the year, in time for the Chapel's inauguration on the anniversary of Ferdinand-Philippe's death. The cycle comprised 22 full-length figures of Saints, and roundels of the Theological Virtues. The cartoons for the windows are in the Louvre.

This drawing belonged to Ingres' life-long friend Edouard Gatteaux (1788-1881), a portrait of the Gatteaux family dedicated 'Ingres à son Excellent ami Gatteaux' was sold in these Rooms, 6 July 1987, lot 55, illustrated