Jacques-Louis Leblanc (1774–1846)
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
1823 · Oil on canvas · European Paintings
This portrait of Leblanc and that of his wife (19.77.2) were painted in 1823, shortly after Ingres met the couple in Florence. Madame Leblanc had been lady-in-waiting to the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Napoleon’s sister Elisa Baciocchi; Monsieur Leblanc was her secretary. Ingres described him as "a Frenchman, very rich and also quite generous and good, who has adopted us, to the point of overwhelming us with kindnesses and also with requests for paintings, portraits, etc." Edgar Degas, who first saw these portraits in 1854, described his acquisition of them in 1896 as "the event of my life as a collector." The Metropolitan bought them from Degas’s estate sale in 1918.
- Artist
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
- Date
- 1823
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Department
- European Paintings
- Credit line
- Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1918
