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The Princesse de Broglie
Painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
The Princesse de Broglie (French: La Princesse de Broglie[lapʁɛ̃.sɛsdəbʁɔj][1][2]) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
It was painted between 1851 and 1853, and shows Pauline de Broglie [fr], who adopted the courtesy title 'Princesse'. Born Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn, she married Albert de Broglie, the future 28th prime minister of France, in 1845.
Pauline was 28 at the time of the painting's completion. She was highly intelligent and widely known for her beauty, but she suffered from profound shyness and the painting captures her melancholia.
Jean-auguste-dominique ingres biography of albert
Pauline contracted tuberculosis in her early 30s and died in 1860 aged 35. Although Albert lived until 1901, he was heartbroken and did not remarry.
Ingres undertook a number of preparatory pencil sketches for the commission, each of which captures her p