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Madame Moitessier (1851)
Madame Moitessier (1851)
Public Domain
Artist
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Artist Dates
1780-1867
Artist Nationality
French
Title
Madame Moitessier
Date
1851
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
147 x 100 cm (57 7/8 x 39 3/8 in)
K Number
K1407
Repository
National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1946.7.18
Notes

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. [1] Illustrated in Henry LaPauze, _Ingres, sa vie et son oeuvre (1780-1867) d'apres documents inédites_, Paris, 1911: 440-446, 452-461, as in the collection of the comtesse de Flavigny. [2] Cited as belonging to Mme la Vicomtesse Olivier de Bondy in _Exhibition Ingres_, Association Franco-Américaine, Chambre Syndicale de la Curiosité et des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1921, no. 44. [3] Information in NGA curatorial files, and from Paul Rosenberg and other sources refer to Marie de Bondy's son as "Comte O. de Bondy." However, published sources on the Taillepied de Bondy family list Marie's sons as François, Robert [predeceases Marie], and Jean; Marie's husband, Comte Olivier de Bondy, predeceases her as well. As the painting was acquired by Paul Rosenberg & Co. in the year following Marie de Bondy's death, it is most likely to have passed through the hands of François, her elder surviving son. As the oldest son, François is also likely to have "Olivier" as part of his given name, though it has not appeared in published genealogical sources.