Portrait of Madame Ingres is a late period oil on canvas painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, completed in 1859.Wolohojian, 206 Depicting his second wife, Delphine Ramel (he had been widowed in 1849)Tinterow, 433, it is Ingres' final painted portrait, apart from two self-portraits.Brettell et al., 14 It was probably painted to accompany Ingres's self-portrait of the same year, now in the Fogg Art Museum, Boston."Change of Art". Harvard College, 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2017
Delphine was the daughter of Dominique Ramel (1777–1860) and the niece of Charles Marcotte d'Argenteuil. She is presented as warm and engaging, devoid of the upper-class pretensions that marked most of his other female portraits from his late period. Ingres depicted her in the same pose in a drawing dated 1855 in the Fogg Art Museum.
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