Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Edmond Cavé (1794-1852)
184440.6 x 32.7 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed, dated, and inscribed lower right: Ingres à Madame / Cavè. / 1844
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of Grace Rainey Rogers, 1943
Provenance
Mme Edmond Cavé (Marie-Élisabeth Blavot), Paris (gift of the artist to the sitter's wife) 1844–at least 1885
her son, Marie-Henry-Albert Boulanger-Cavé, Paris, by 1885–died 1910
his cousin, Gaston Le Roy, Paris, 1910–died 1925
his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19-20 May 1926, nr. 54, as "Portrait de M. François [sic] Cavé," for Fr 126,000, to Paul and Marcel Jonas for Rosenberg
with Paul Rosenberg, Paris, 1926
Grace Rainey Rogers, New York, 1926–died 1943
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Other works by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Academix Study of a Male Torso
1801
1801
Charles X in his Coronation Robes
Madame Edmond Cavé (Marie-Élisabeth Blavot, born 1810)
c. 1831-34
c. 1831-34
Head of Saint John the Evangelist
Portrait of Duke Ferdinand-Philippe of Orléans
1844
1844