Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

classicism

Ingres Paintings 1780 - 1867 Painter, Printmaker, Violinist, France, Neoclassicism

Madame Paul-Sigisbert Moitessier, 1856

Oil on canvas, 47.24 x 36.26 inches [120 x 92.1 cm]

National Gallery, London

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OIL PAINTING: Madame Paul-Sigisbert Moitessier, 1856
When Ingres had finished four years later Madame Paul-Sigisbert Moitessier, was 35. Ageless like a goddess with her Grecian profile impossibly reflected in a mirror parallel to the back of her head but dressed with Second Empire opulence in flowered chintz, Madame Moitessier exemplifies the ambiguities of Ingres's art. The firm contour of her shoulders, arms and face defines flesh perfectly rounded - though barely modelled - and as poreless, smooth and luminous as polished alabaster, yet paradoxically soft to the touch. In contrast to the resiliently buxom horsehair settee, it arouses fantasies and fears of bruising. The pose of Madame Paul-Sigisbert Moitessier,, with head resting against the right forefinger, derives from an ancient wall painting and signifies as Ingres must have known matronly modesty. But 'classicising' devices are offset by the minutely realistic transcription of the surfaces of fabrics, the fashionable parure of jewels, ormolu frames, Oriental porcelain. The mixture of the general with the particular, timeless grandeur with bourgeois ostentation, languor with pictorial rigour, is unique to Ingres and far from bloodlessly Neo-classical.