Portrait of Madame Moitessier
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres · 1856
The story
Madame Moitessier is a portrait of Marie-Clotilde-Inès Moitessier (née de Foucauld) begun in 1844 and completed in 1856 by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The portrait, which depicts Madame Moitessier seated, has been in the collection of the National Gallery in London since 1946.
Madame Moitessier is also the title of a second portrait by Ingres, which depicts her standing. That version was painted in 1851 and is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
- Artist
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
- Date
- 1856
- Collection
- National Gallery, London, United Kingdom
- Movement
- Neoclassicism
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 120 × 92.1 cm
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