Portrait of Madame Rhode (Rhoda?)

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

1810–20 · Graphite on pale buff wove paper · Robert Lehman Collection

Unlike other presentation portraits by Ingres in this gallery, this one appears unfinished. Even its signature, Ing, is incomplete, and the inscription is only partially legible. The ethereal figure may have been a British subject who posed for Ingres in Rome in the early nineteenth century. Her exotic headdress and Empire clothing and jewelry accord with such a date. The drawing remained in the artist’s studio at his death, further supporting its presumed role as a study.

Artist

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Date

1810–20

Medium

Graphite on pale buff wove paper

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975