0000004163 00000 n 0000002329 00000 n 0000006675 00000 n 0000011745 00000 n 0000006319 00000 n This work resulted from a somewhat begrudging encounter—on the artist's part—between the greatest portrait painter in France, in his sixties, and a young princess in her twenties—by then the mother of three. 0000006148 00000 n The worried nude, chained to a boulder, swoons. 52 inches high by 36'4 inches wide, signed and dated 1845; belonged to the d'Haussonville family until 1927, when it was purchased by The Frick Collection. 0000004817 00000 n %PDF-1.6 %���� 45 0 obj << /Linearized 1.0 /L 88529 /H [ 26442 250 ] /O 49 /E 26692 /N 4 /T 87585 /P 0 >> endobj xref 45 27 0000000015 00000 n A perfectionist, Ingres surpassed even his teacher Jacques-Louis David in his painstaking attention to detail and finish. Blue is also the color of the wall paint, the velvet mantle-cover she leans against, its fringe and a tassel, the Sèvres and other porcelains on the mantle, assorted flowers, the pouch for her fan, the bell-rope to call servants, the paisley-like pattern on the gold and red cashmere shawl draped over a chair, gemstones in her jewelry, Louise's limpid eyes, even the pale shadows beneath her eyes and along the hand she holds at her chin.All these and more encompass the primary color's full range, starting with delicate azure and ending in deep indigo. 0000018072 00000 n In 1845 Mme d'Haussonville's title was Vicomtesse, and in some references to the picture she is so called.
0000003313 00000 n Comtesse d'Haussonville. There's also the Simon's own early Ingres portrait of a young baron, painted when the artist was just 25.An added treat is the surprising copy of the Louvre Museum's 1819 Ingres, “Angelica at the Rock,” painted six decades later by an 18-year-old Georges Seurat.
0000001965 00000 n Her husband was a diplomat, son of a distinguished soldier. Ingres's portrait of the Comtesse d'Haussonville has always stood out, even in the Frick. 0000001819 00000 n The Princesse de Broglie, whom Ingres later portrayed c. 1851–53, was married to Louise's brother Albert de Broglie, the French monarchist politician, diplomat and writer. The Portrait of Comtesse d'Haussonville is an 1845 oil on canvas painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Louise, Princesse de Broglie, granddaughter of the formidable author Madame de Stael, had married the young Vicomte d'Haussonville at the age of eighteen. Her heirs put the great painting on the market to pay estate taxes, and the New York museum bought it for $125,000 in 1927. 0000005456 00000 n Louise d’Haussonville was a daughter, wife, mother and sister to members of the Academie Francaise (Russell) thereby demonstrating her high position in society. Much of it is doubled by the reflection in the big gilded mirror behind her.It's tempting to think of Ingre's extraordinary choice of chromatic display in symbolic rather than simply decorative terms. A painting was not done until he was satisfied and clients could wait for …
The sitter, Louise de Broglie, Countess d'Haussonville, of the wealthy House of Broglie. Aside from the family from which she came, the Comtesse was an exceptionally interesting and intelligent woman. 0000001840 00000 n 0000002181 00000 n de Staël and the daughter of an eminent liberal statesman. Always strange too.One of the greatest portraits by one of the greatest portrait painters — French genius Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), who didn't like painting portraits despite his knack for it — the picture captivates for a host of peculiar reasons. Comtesse d'Haussonville, 1842, was not completed until 1848.
“The blues,” so-called because of their uniforms, had been the troops of the revolutionary government.With Ingres' greatest portraits you find yourself seduced, then abandoned, then marveling at the painter's amazing capacities to make you believe his fictions.This unfolding sequence of thoughts is reflected in Louise's contemplative pose, where her chin rests on a hand whose index finger extends beneath her jaw. 0000005977 00000 n
(Ingres apparently made about 80 drawings for the portrait, 15 of which are known.) The Frick Collection can't lend anything that Henry Clay Frick himself acquired, but he died in 1919.
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The gesture's importance can be seen in the mirror where Ingres reflects it — even though Louise's body would have blocked it.At the Simon, “Comtesse d'Haussonville” is accompanied by two Ingres drawings also loaned by the Frick, one a study for the not-so-simple folds in her dress. 0000001715 00000 n
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