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elected to remain in Italy after completing his term at the Villa Medici in 1810.
He was allotted a large studio in a nearby church where he intended to concentrate
on history paintings. To help support himself, he also painted portraits of wealthy
travelers and aristocrats. This painting of the sixty-year-old countess was commissioned
by her son, the prefect of Rome from 1810 to 1814. While certain details of the
portrait suggest that Ingres took a realistic approach—the wart between the
sitter's eyes, the faint mustache on her upper lip, the full nose, the double
chin—elsewhere he took pains not to emphasize her age. Any wrinkles she might
have had on her forehead are hidden by the curls of her hair (possibly a wig);
those on her neck, behind a large lace ruff; and those on her chest, under a fine
muslin chemisette.
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique
Ingres (French, 1780–1867)
Comtesse
de Tournon, née Geneviève de Seytres Caumont, 1812
Oil on canvas;
36 1/4 x 28 3/4 in. (92 x 73 cm)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Henry
P. McIlhenny Collection in Memory of Frances P. McIlhenny, 1986 (1986–26–22)
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