Literature

Collection catalogues
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 11

Provenance

gift of the artist to Mme Charles Marcotte d'Argenteuil, Paris, 1852–died 1862
her widower, Charles Marcotte d'Argenteuil, Paris, 1862–died 1864
their son, Joseph Marcotte, Paris, 1864–died 1893
his widow, Mme Joseph Marcotte, née Paule Aguillon, Paris, 1893–died 1922
their daughter, Mme Marcel Pougin de la Maisonneuve, Paris, 1922–died 1939
apparently, her widower, Marcel Pougin de la Maisonneuve, Paris, 1939–c. 1947, sold to Wildenstein
with Wildenstein, London and New York, by 1947–56, sold to Ford
Henry Ford II, 1956–64
his former wife, Anne McDonnell Ford, later Mrs. Deane F. Johnson, New York, 1964–at least 1982, sold to Shickman
Lila and Herman Shickman, New York, c. 1985–2005

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 2005.186

Other works by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Deux études de bras pour la figure d'Apelles dans le tableau de 'L'apothéose d'Homère'
c. 1826-27

The grand odalisque
1814

Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn, Princesse de Broglie
1853

Head of the grand odalisque
c. 1814-18

Odalisque in Grisaille
c. 1824-34