Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc (Françoise Poncelle, 1788–1839)

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

1823 · Oil on canvas · European Paintings

For this portrait there are more than two dozen drawings investigating a variety of poses (Musée Ingres, Montauban). Similar studies do not exist for the likeness of Madame Leblanc’s husband (19.77.1). The two paintings—the only pair of portraits Ingres produced—were probably intended to hang facing one another, since the light falls differently in each, but they are unified by the visual harmony of hands, gold chains, and rich textiles that enhance the couple’s black clothing. This work, however, was exhibited without its pendant at the Salon of 1834.

Artist

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Date

1823

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1918