Ingres, Portrait of Madame Ingres, 1859, 121.3 x 90.8cm.
Am Römerholz, Switzerland
Portrait of Madame Ingres is a late period oil on canvas painting by the French
Neoclassical artist
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, completed in 1859.[1] Depicting his second wife Delphine Ramel (he was widowed in 1849),[2] it is Ingres' final painted portrait, apart from two self-portraits.[3] It was probably painted to accompany Ingres's self-portrait of the same year, now in the
Fogg Art Museum, Boston.[4]
Delphine was the daughter of Dominique Ramel (1777–1860) and the niece of Charles Marcotte d'Argenteuil. She is presented as warm and engaging, devoid of the upper-class pretensions that marked most of his other later-period female portraits. Ingres depicted her in the same pose in a drawing dated 1855 in the Fogg Art Museum.
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Sources
Brettell, Richard R., Paul Hayes Tucker, and Natalie H. Lee. 2009. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Paintings. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 14.
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Wolohojian, Stephan (ed). "A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthop Collection, Harvard University". NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003.
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