Jean-Auguste-Dominique INGRES (Montauban 1780 - Paris 1867) Preparatory drawing for Joan of Arc

Jean-Auguste-Dominique INGRES (Montauban 1780 - Paris 1867)
Preparatory drawing for Joan of Arc
Pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash over black pencil lines
46 x 35 cm
Signed lower left in black pencil
Provenance:
Former Haro collection, his stamp at the bottom (L.1241 )
Our drawing is preparatory for the << Joan of Arc >> preserved in the Louvre (MI.667)
Ingres worked between 1843 and 1846 for <>. He was commissioned << full-length portraits >> to serve as frontispieces for biographies including that of Joan of Arc. Studying 15th century armor, he produced numerous preparatory drawings, like ours, for a composition featuring the saint at the coronation of Charles VII. The Second Empire commissioned the work, which was delivered in 1854. Our study can be compared with another to which Ingres adds a skirt in sanguine (size 50 x 38 cm).
(See: G. Vigne, Dessins d'Ingres, Catalogue raisonne des dessins du musee de Montauban, Paris, Gallimard et
RMN, 1995, p. 150, repr. 817, inv. 867.1578.)