# Comtesse Charles d’Agoult (born Marie de Flavigny) and Her Daughter Claire d’Agoult

- By: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French, 1780–1867)
- Date: 1849
- Medium: Graphite, heightened with white opaque watercolor, with touches of yellow watercolor, on off-white wove paper, lined to secondary wove paper
- Classification: Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions: Primary support: 48.5 × 39.9 cm (19 1/8 × 15 3/4 in.); Secondary support: 49.9 × 41.5 cm (19 11/16 × 16 3/8 in.)
- Culture: France
- Credit line: Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/244917)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/72cd39f7-21e8-6418-cbd8-d824b011f1f0/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
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One of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s largest and most ambitious portrait drawings, this work depicts the important Parisian society hostess, writer, and critic the Comtesse Marie d’Agoult and her daughter Claire.

Ingres typically produced his portrait drawings without preparation and in a single sitting. This work, in contrast, required at least two sittings and three preparatory studies. The drawing is notable for its evocation of the richly furnished interior of d’Agoult’s home. The artist selectively applied yellow watercolor to enhance objects and added white heightening to the sitters’ dresses to suggest the sheen of silk.

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