Date : 1823
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection (1918)
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French Painting
Painting (Portrait)
Area related
Florence (Italy)
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This portrait of Leblanc and that of his wife, Françoise Poncelle Leblanc, were painted in 1823, shortly after Ingres met the couple in Florence. Madame Leblanc was the lady-in-waiting to the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Napoleons sister Elisa Bacchiochi. Monsieur Leblanc was the governor of the Principality of Piombino. Degas, who had a sizable collection of works by Ingres, owned both portraits, which the Museum bought from his estate sale in 1918.
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