Pauline Eleanore de Galard de Brassac de Bearn, Princesse de Broglie
1853
Oil on canvas
47 3/4 x 35 3/4 in
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique (1780-1867).
French painter, the son of a minor painter and sculptor.
He is a puzzling artist and his career is full of contradictions.
He was a bourgeois with the limitations of a bourgeois mentality, but as Baudelaire remarked, his finest works `are the product of a deeply sensuous nature'.
