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Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie
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Title:Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie
Artist:Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French, Montauban 1780–1867 Paris)
Date:1851–53
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:47 3/4 × 35 3/4 in. (121.3 × 90.8 cm)
Framed: 61 1/4 × 49 1/2 in. (155.6 × 125.7 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Object Number:1975.1.186
Although the French neo-classical artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres often confessed reluctance to paint portraits, his many splendid paintings of French aristocrats and powerful personalities ultimately glorified his persona, and assured his social ascendancy in the royal circles of Louis-Philippe d’Orléans (r. 1830-48). Ingres returned to France from his years at the Villa Medici in Rome to a steady stream of commissions, and a growing reputation unsurpassed in the genre of portraiture.
Prompted by the success of the beguiling portrait of his sister Louise-Albertine de Broglie, later Comtesse d’Haussonville (The Frick Collection), Albert de Broglie commissioned Ingres to paint his b
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Portrait: Princesse de Broglie, by Ingres
| Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, ca. 1852; MMA 1975.1.186 |
Joséphine is wearing an evening dress of a light blue silk taffeta, very reminiscent of the mid-eighteenth century. The broad v-neckline and armscyes are trimmed with box-pleated strips of taffeta, and the front appears to be decorated with matching bows, also eighteenth century touches. Her short taffeta sleeves might be puffed, with the puff folded out into a kind of flat fin; each of these is covered with a wide lace oversl