Portrait of Louis-Mathieu Molé is an 1834 portrait painting by the French artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres depicting the politician Louis-Mathieu Molé.
[1] [2] Molé served twice as Prime Minister of France during the July Monarchy of Louis Philippe I, as a member of the conservative Resistance Party.
[3] Ingres exhibited the portrait in his own studio, and was then commanded to bring it to Tuileries Palace for the royal family to view.
[4] While he refused to submit it the Salon of 1835[5] it was later exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in 1855.
[6] Today it is in the collection of the Louvre in Paris, having hung for many years in the Château de Champlâtreux.