Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Montauban 1780-1867 Paris)
Lot 56

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

Portrait of Prince Achille Murat

Closed5 July 2016

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GBP 43,750

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Montauban 1780-1867 Paris)
Portrait of Prince Achille Murat
titled 'Dessiné d'après nature/ par moi Ingres Naples 1814.' and inscribed 'habit bleu noir/ parements rouges/ [...]'
pencil
11½ x 8 5/8 in. (29.3 x 22 cm.)

Madame Pierret.
Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 26 February 1869, lot 50 (175 frs.).
Joachim Napoléon, 5th Prince Murat (from 1901 to 1932), with a wax stamp on the verso of the frame and numbered '141'; then to his wife.
Marie-Cécile Ney d'Elchingen, Princesse Joachim Murat (until 1960), and by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

A squared sketch of the same sitter is in the musée Ingres at Montauban (Vigne, op. cit., 1995, no. 2747).