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Portrait of Madame de Senonnes

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His signature is written in the business tucked into the edge of the mirror. A number of small paper studies survive; the earliest of which show her reclining erotically on a sofa, the later sketches focus on the presentation of her upper body and chest. Some art historians have compared it in tone
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Born into a relatively wealthy family, she married Jean Marcoz, a merchant draper, in 1802, and they moved to Rome in 1803, and had a daughter, Geneviève-Amélina Talensier that year. However, the marriage was unhappy, and they separated in 1809. Talensier left Rome to fight in the French army, and
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The portrait is considered one of Ingres' finest. Because she was significantly attractive and aristocratic, Ingres, who professed to disdain portraiture but who needed the income it provided, put great effort into the work in the hope of attracting other commissions.
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The work is Ingres' first to fully explore the use of a mirror, and the additional spatial space it allows, earlier seen but not as successfully, in the 1805
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After her death in 1828, the portrait remained in the possession of her husband until 1831, when, pursued by creditors, he sent it to his elder brother, the
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Marcoz is shown in a seductive and languid pose on a sofa, her hair tightly pulled back. She is dressed in a
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She began to socialise in artistic circles, passing herself off as Italian. Marcoz met
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Conisbee, Philip. "Rome, 1806-1820". In: Tinterow, Gary; Conisbee, Philip (eds).
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Catalogue des tableaux et statues du Musée de la ville de Nantes
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Virgil reading The Aeneid before Augustus, Livia and Octavia
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Among the sources that Ingres took inspiration from were
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The Ambassadors of Agamemnon in the tent of Achilles
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
viscountess
Senonnes
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes

Alexandre de La Motte-Baracé
Marquis
Feneu
francs

Leonardo da Vinci
La belle ferronnière

Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière
low cut
gown
ochre
muslin
lace
cashmere
shawl
Grande Odalisque
Jacques-Louis David
La belle ferronnière
Study for a Portrait of Madame de Senonnes Ingres, 1813–14
Study for a Portrait of Madame de Senonnes, graphite on paper, 1813–14
Study for a Portrait of Madame de Senonnes, graphite on paper, 1813–14
Copy in grisaille by James Tissot, 1899

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