Detail of Madame Paul-Sigisbert Moitessier, née Marie-Clotilde-Inès de Foucauld, Seated Madame Moitessier originally posed for Ingres in a yellow dress, but later switched to a more fashionable one made of flowered silk from Lyons. Empress Eugenie began wearing this type of fabrics in the mid-1850s at the request of her husband, Napoleon III, who hoped to stimulate the silk-weaving industry in Lyons.
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