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Ingres completed his portrait of the comtesse d'Haussonville (The Frick Collection,
New York) in 1845, it was suggested that he also paint one of her beautiful new
sister-in-law, the twenty-eight-year-old princesse de Broglie (1825–1860).
By all accounts the princess was a shy, deeply religious woman. Prior to her premature
death from consumption seven years later, she raised five sons and wrote a detailed,
two-volume study, Christian Virtues Explained by Examples Drawn from the Lives
of the Saints, which was published posthumously by her husband.
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