Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière [SEP] inception
Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière
The portrait of Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière was painted in 1806 by the French Neoclassical artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and today hangs in the Louvre. 
It is the third of three portraits of the Rivière family the artist painted that year. Caroline's father, Philibert Rivière, was a successful court official under Napoleon's empire, and sought to commemorate himself, his wife and daughter through a commission with the then young and rising artist—his portraits of and his wife are also still extant. Although Ingres
visual themes presented in the rich imagery of the foreground.
In 2003, the art critic Jonathan Jones remarked of the painting,
The sexuality Ingres usually reserved for harem fantasies slips over into the real and respectable world in this charged portrait. His obviously intense visual relationship with his subject and his contentment to look, with a clinical waxy fetishism, at Mademoiselle Rivière's full lips, bared neck, long gloves and spectacularly serpentine boa, lend this picture drama."
"Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière" was bequeathed to the