Episode 1308
The Princesse de Broglie
Thu, 2020-Dec-03 02:49 UTC
Length - 2:32
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The featured article for Thursday, 3 December 2020 is The Princesse de Broglie.
The Princesse de Broglie (French: La Princesse de Broglie) is an oil on canvas painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Completed between 1851 and 1853, it shows Pauline de Broglie, who adopted the courtesy title princess. Born Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn, she had married Albert de Broglie, the future 28th Prime Minister of France, in 1845. Pauline was aged 28 at the time of its completion. She was highly intelligent and widely known for her beauty, but she suffered from profound shyness and the painting captures her melancholia. 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 in preparation for the commission, each of which captures her personality and sense of taste. They show her in various poses, including standing, and in differently styled dresses. The eventual painting is considered one of Ingres's finest later-period portraits of women, along with the Portraits of Comtesse d'Haussonville, Baronne de Rothschild and Madame Moitessier. As with many of Ingres's female portraits, details of costume and setting are rendered with precision while her body seems to lack a solid bone structure. The painting is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and is signed and dated 1853.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:49 UTC on Thursday, 3 December 2020.
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