Studies for "The Martyrdom of Saint Symphorien" (Lictors, Stone Thrower, and Spectator)

Artists

Dimensions

sight: 60.3 x 49.5 cm (23 3/4 x 19 1/2 in.) framed: 79.4 x 69.5 x 6.4 cm (31 1/4 x 27 3/8 x 2 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Created, 1833, Sold to Haro, 1866. Etienne-François Haro, Paris?, Purchased from the artist, 1866, Sold at Ingres sale, Hotel Drouot, 1867. Object was no. 8 in sale; presumably bought in for Fr 4,000 Etienne-François and Henri Haro, Paris, Haro sale, Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1892. Object was no. 100, and sold for Fr 3,600. Henri was the son of Etienne-François Baron Joseph Vitta, Paris, Sold to Winthrop through Birnbaum, 1935. The work was included in Vitta's sale of March 15, 1935 at Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, as no. 5, but was bought in for Fr 13,500 and sold to Winthrop in a private transaction. Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Purchased from Baron Joseph Vitta, through Birnb, 1935, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1943. Winthrop paid Fr 200,000 for this work and 1943.254.