Portrait of Madame Ingres

[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] 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.