Madame Moitessier [SEP] collection
Portrait of Madame Moitessier
Madame Moitessier is a portrait of Marie-Clotilde-Inès Moitessier (née de Foucauld) begun in 1844 and completed in 1856 by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The portrait, which depicts Madame Moitessier seated, is now in the National Gallery in London. "Madame Moitessier" is also the title of a second portrait by Ingres, which depicts her standing; it was painted in 1851 and is now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. 
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("modesty") in the Vatican collection. Another trick that Ingres used was to paint the fabrics and details in the portraits with extreme precision and accuracy, but to idealize the face. The eye of the viewer would perceive the fabrics as realistic and would assume the face was equally true. His portraits of women range from the warmly sensuous "Madame de Senonnes" (1814) to the realistic "Mademoiselle Jeanne Gonin" (1821), the Junoesque "Marie-Clothilde-Inés de Foucauld, Madame Moitessier"