Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780–1867) Madame Louis-François Bertin, née Geneviève-Aimée-Victoire Boutard, 1834 Graphite on paper; 12 5/8 x 9 1/2 in. (32.1 x 24.1 cm) Musée du Louvre, Paris, Département des Arts Graphiques (R.F. 4380)		Louis-François Bertin
This likeness of Madame Bertin (b. 1772) was intended as a companion to a drawing of her husband that Ingres made two years after the famous oil portrait. Ingres is realistic to the extreme, depicting his obese sitter with her bonnet, curls, and mustache; but he stops short of caricature. The drawing is dedicated to the couple's daughter Louise, a poet and composer of operas. Back

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