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marrying Madeleine Chapelle in December 1813,
Ingres continued to paint portraits of wealthy sitters in order to support his
new wife. This painting depicts a thirty-one-year-old divorcée, the beautiful
mistress of Alexandre de la Motte-Baracée, vicomte de Senonnes, a wealthy
collector and amateur artist living in Rome. Marcoz (1783–1828), a native
of Lyons, had married a Frenchman whose textile business brought the couple to
Rome. They divorced in 1809, and within months, she had established herself as
Senonnes's mistress. The viscount married Marcoz less than a year after this portrait
was painted, much to the dismay of his family.
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique
Ingres (French, 1780–1867)
Madame de Senonnes, née
Marie-Geneviève-Marguerite
Marcoz, later Vicomtesse de Senonnes, 1814
Oil on canvas; 41 3/4 x 33
1/8 in. (106 x 84 cm)
Musée
des Beaux-Arts, Nantes (1028)
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