Born in Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe, in 1760, Guillaume Guillon-Lethière was the illegitimate child of a king's prosecutor and a freed black slave. After displaying a youthful aptitude for draftsmanship, he moved to Paris at the age of fourteen and eventually established himself As a formidable history painter. After securing influential allies, such as Lucien Bonaparte, he was appointed director of the French Academy in Rome. Ingres was beginning his second year as a pensionnaire when Lethière arrived in October 1807. From 1808 to 1818, Ingres executed no fewer than ten portraits of Lethière, including this virtuoso sheet depicting the middle-aged director in all of his convivial pomposity.

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Title: Portrait of Guillaume Guillon-Lethière
Founder: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Date of construction: 1815
Approximate size: w8.75 x h11 in
Credit Line: Bequest of Therese Kuhn Straus in memory of her husband, Herbert N. Straus
Type: Drawing
External connection: [ Ссылка ]
Material: Pencil on wove paper#Drawings#Sketches#Graphite＃Portrait#ART

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