Lot Essay
On 19 June 1845, Prince Albert de Broglie married Pauline de Béarn. About then Ingres finished a portrait of Albert's sister, Princesse Louise de Broglie, Vicomtesse d'Haussonville, in the Frick Collection, New York, since 1927.
Around 1850, the artist was commissioned to paint a portrait of Pauline, finished in 1853, and now in the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. During that period Ingres also executed a drawing, now in a private collection, Paris, showing the Princess standing, her left hand playing with a pendant (fig. 1), H. Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres, Berne, 1980, V, no. 422, illustrated. The present drawing, though representing the Princesse seated, shows the same motif of the pendant. It is probably one of the earliest sketches made by the artist in the preparation of the portrait of Princesse de Broglie. Like the drawing in the Paris collection, it was also in the studio at the artist's death and therefore carries the studio stamp.
Around 1850, the artist was commissioned to paint a portrait of Pauline, finished in 1853, and now in the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. During that period Ingres also executed a drawing, now in a private collection, Paris, showing the Princess standing, her left hand playing with a pendant (fig. 1), H. Naef, Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres, Berne, 1980, V, no. 422, illustrated. The present drawing, though representing the Princesse seated, shows the same motif of the pendant. It is probably one of the earliest sketches made by the artist in the preparation of the portrait of Princesse de Broglie. Like the drawing in the Paris collection, it was also in the studio at the artist's death and therefore carries the studio stamp.