Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière
Painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The portrait of Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière was painted in 1806[1] by the French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and today hangs in the Louvre.
It is the third of three portraits of the Rivière family the artist painted that year. Caroline's father, Philibert Rivière, was a successful court official under Napoleon's empire, and sought to commemorate himself, his wife and daughter through a commission with the then young and rising artist—Ingrres's portraits of Philibert and his wife are also still extant.[2] Although Ingres favoured subject matter drawn from history or Greek legend, at this early stage in his career he earned his living mainly through commissions from wealthy patrons.[1]
The family lived outside Paris, at St. Germain-en-Laye, and Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière would have been between 13 and 15 at the time she was portrayed; Ingres described her as the "ravishing daughter".[3]