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Portrait of the Forestier Family
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*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.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
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