Focus on Portrait of Madame Moitessier and discuss the abstract.
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, is now in the collection of the National Gallery in London, which acquired it in 1936.Madame Moitessier is also the title of a second portrait by Ingres, which depicts her standing; it was painted in 1851 and is now in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. National Gallery London