Portrait of Madame Duvaucey

It is framed by the inwards swoops of the cured rose and gold Louis XVI chair, and embroidered pale yellow and red silk shawl.

She holds an expensive-looking fan, and is adorned with three partly visible rings, an elegant thin necklace and elephant hair bracelets.

[1] The contemporary critic Théophile Gautier wrote of her that "there is no woman that M. Ingres has painted, but the likeness of the ancient Chimera, in Empire dress.

[5] Forty years after its completion, Duvaucey urgently needed money and visited Ingres in Paris to sell the painting.

Ingres recognised her, and found a buyer in Fredric Reisit, whose collection became the Musée Condé, Chantilly where the painting remains today.