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painting and its pendant represent one of
the most ambitious projects undertaken by Ingres during his four-year stay in
Florence, from 1820 to 1824. The sitter for this portrait, Françoise Poncelle
(b. 1788), had married the banker Jacques-Louis Leblanc (1774–1846) in 1811.
The couple remained in Florence until 1832, when they returned to the French capital
and renewed friendly relations with Ingres and his wife. Decades later, in 1896,
the artist Edgar Degas, a fervent admirer of Ingres, acquired the two Leblanc
portraits at the estate auction of the couple's youngest daughter Isaure.
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique
Ingres (French, 1780–1867)
Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc, née
Françoise Poncelle, 1823
Oil on canvas; 47 x 36 1/2 in. (119.4 x
92.7 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Catharine Lorillard
Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1918 (19.77.2)
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