Portrait of Madame Ingres

Portrait of Madame Ingres is a late period oil on canvas painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, completed in 1859.^[1] Depicting his second wife Delphine Ramel (he was widowed in 1849),^[2] it is Ingres' final painted portrait, apart from two self-portraits.^[3] It was probably painted to accompany Ingres's self-portrait of the same year, now in the Fogg Art Museum, Boston.^[4]

Portrait of Delphine Ramel, 1855, Fogg Art Museum

Ingres, Portrait of Madame Ingres, 1859, 121.3 x 90.8cm. Am Römerholz, Switzerland

Delphine was the daughter of Dominique Ramel (1777–1860) and the niece of Charles Marcotte d'Argenteuil. She is presented as warm and engaging, devoid of the upper-class pretensions that marked most of his other later-period female portraits. Ingres depicted her in the same pose in a drawing dated 1855 in the Fogg Art Museum.