ID: 700008538 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008538	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Madame Moitessier (painting (visual work); Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique ; 1851; National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, United States); 1946.7.18)

Note: When his friend Marcotte first suggested that Ingres paint Ines Moitessier, the wife of a financier and jurist, he demurred. Ingres changed his mind after being struck by her "terrible et belle tête" (terrible and beautiful head.) The author Théophile Gautier described her as "Junolike," and Ingres presents her with the imposing remoteness of a Roman goddess. Her stance is severe and strongly silhouetted, her monumental shoulders stark ivory against the somber, restricted colors around her.

Titles:

Madame Moitessier (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U,French-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1851

Creator Display:

Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique [preferred,VP]

painter Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (French painter and draftsman, 1780-1867) [500028037]

Locations:

Current: National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, United States) [500115983] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1946.7.18

Credit Line: Samuel H. Kress Collection

Display Materials: oil on canvas

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: overall: 147 x 100 cm (57 7/8 x 39 3/8 in.); framed: 176.5 x 131.4 x 8.9 cm (69 1/2 x 51 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.)

Cultures:

French (preferred)

General Subject:

portraits (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Inès Moitessier (French sitter, born 1821) [500354957]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	single-sitter portrait [300404138]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits) (AAT)

Provenance: The sitter, Marie-Clothilde-Inès, née de Foucauld [1821-1897], and her husband, Paul Sigisbert Moitessier [1799-1889]; their elder daughter, Clothilde-Marie-Catherine, comtesse de Flavigny [1843-1914], by 1911;[1] her sister, Françoise-Camille-Marie, vicomtesse Taillepied de Bondy [1850-1934], by 1921;[2] probably her son, François,[3] comte Taillepied de Bondy [b. 1875]; sold 1935 to (Paul Rosenberg & Co., London, New York, and Paris); sold 1945 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1946 to NGA.

Inscriptions: lower center left: I.A.D. INGRES P.XIT ANO 1851; upper right: M.E INES MOITESSIER / NÉE DE FOUCAULD.

Related Works:

	study is .... Study for the Dress and the Hands of Madame Moitessier [700006206]
	..........preparatory studies; Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780 - 1867) (French ...; 1851; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 91.GG.79

	study is .... Madame Moitessier [700006197]
	..........drawing (visual work); Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French draftsman and painter,...; 1851; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 89.GD.50

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Madame Moitessier	........ [VP]
	........ National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. [online] (2001-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. [online] (2001-)