Detail of Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc by Ingres in the Metropoltian Museum of Art, February 2008

Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc (Françoise Poncelle, 1788–1839), 1823
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780–1867)
Oil on canvas; 47 x 36 1/2 in. (119.4 x 92.7 cm)
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1918 (19.77.2)

There are more than two dozen preliminary drawings for this portrait, investigating a variety of poses (Musée Ingres, Montauban). Similar studies do not exist for the portrait of Madame Leblanc's husband (19.77.1). This portrait was exhibited alone at the Salon of 1834, where reviewers harshly criticized the figure's anatomical distortions.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jldv/ho_19.77.2.htm