
Comtesse d'Haussonville
The Portrait of Comtesse d'Haussonville is an 1845 oil-on-canvas painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The sitter was Louise de Broglie, Countess d'Haussonville, of the wealthy House of Broglie. The Princesse de Broglie, who Ingres later portrayed c. 1851–53, was married to Louise's brother Albert de Broglie, the French monarchist politician, diplomat and writer. Highly educated, Louise de Broglie was later an essayist and biographer and published historical romance novels based on the lives of Lord Byron, Robert Emmett and Margaret of Valois.
The painting is one of the few portrait commissions Ingres accepted at the time, as he was more interested in Neoclassical subject matter, which, to his frustration, was a far less lucrative source of income than portraiture. He had made a preparatory sketch and had begun an oil and canvas version two years earl…
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