the painting remained in the family's private possession for eighty years, though it was displayed publicly on occasion. its first paris exhibition in 1846 created "a storm of approval among her family and friends", ingres wrote a friend. the portrait was subsequently exhibited in 1855, 1867, 1874, and 1910, and was engraved in 1889 and again in 1910; it was also circulated in photographed form.