Madame Alexandre Lethière, née Rosa Meli, and Her Daughter, Letizia
This drawing is closely related to the Museum’s Madame Alexandre Lethière and Her Daughter Letizia by Ingres and is in fact a nearly identical tracing that the artist excised and pasted onto a new sheet of heavy white paper. A member of the Lethière family, who wanted a copy, may have requested the traced version. Rosa Meli, an Italian apothecary’s daughter, was the second wife of Alexandre Lethière, whose father, Guillaume, was director of the French Academy in Rome and a close friend of Ingres’s.
Artwork Details
- Title: Madame Alexandre Lethière, née Rosa Meli, and Her Daughter, Letizia
- Artist: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French, Montauban 1780–1867 Paris)
- Date: 1815
- Medium: Graphite
- Dimensions: Sheet: 9 1/8 x 7 15/16 in. (23.1 x 20.2 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2012
- Object Number: 2012.150.10
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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