# Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie

**Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres** (French, 1780–1867)  
1851–53  
Oil on canvas  
47 3/4 × 35 3/4 in. (121.3 × 90.8 cm) Framed: 61 1/4 × 49 1/2 in. (155.6 × 125.7 cm)

Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.1.186. [The museum's record](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459106).

## About this work

The Princesse de Broglie leans on an upholstered armchair in a gown of pale blue satin, her hands clasped and jewels at her throat and wrists. Ingres, then in his seventies, rendered every surface with porcelain smoothness: the cool, gleaming satin, the glint of gold, the flawless skin and the slightly melancholy face. The princess, admired for her intelligence and reserve, died of tuberculosis at thirty-five, a few years after the portrait was finished. It is among the last and most refined of Ingres’s portraits of women.

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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres painted this in 1851–53, aged about 71. It is now at The Met in New York.

### How it was made

- **Oil paint.** Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.

### [Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/jean-auguste-dominique-ingres)

French, 1780–1867; born in Montauban; died in Paris

Ingres trained under Jacques-Louis David and won the Prix de Rome, then spent nearly two decades in Italy, absorbing Raphael above all. He became the champion of line and classical tradition against Delacroix’s Romanticism, and later directed the French Academy in Rome. Though he thought history painting his true calling, he is now most admired for his portraits, both his polished oils and the precise graphite drawings he made of visitors in Rome and Florence.

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## Facts

- Type: Paintings
- The artist was about 71
- Real size: about 48 × 36 in (121 × 91 cm). The original is larger than our largest print, 20 × 30 in, so every print is a reduction.
- Century: 19th century
- Subjects: Portraits, Women
- Colour: teal
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

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- Framed reproduction: 8 × 10 in $78; 11 × 14 in $98; 12 × 16 in $108; 16 × 20 in $138; 18 × 24 in $164; 20 × 30 in $208
- Canvas reproduction: 8 × 10 in $58; 11 × 14 in $72; 12 × 16 in $79; 16 × 20 in $98; 18 × 24 in $118; 20 × 30 in $148
- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2; 12 × 16 in $3; 16 × 20 in $3; 18 × 24 in $3; 20 × 30 in $5

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