Madame Alexandre Lethière, née Rosa Meli, and Her Daughter, Letizia 1815 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres French 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
Madame Alexandre Lethière, née Rosa Meli, and Her Daughter, Letizia 1815 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres French 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’ Madame Alexandre Lethière, née Rosa Meli, and Her Daughter, Letizia 408998
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