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

Jacques-Louis Leblanc (1774–1846), 1823
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780–1867)
Oil on canvas; 47 5/8 x 37 5/8 in. (121 x 95.6 cm)
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1918 (19.77.1)

This portrait of Leblanc and that of his wife, Françoise Poncelle Leblanc (19.77.2), were painted in 1823, shortly after Ingres met the couple in Florence. Madame Leblanc was lady-in-waiting to the grand duchess of Tuscany, Napoleon's sister Elisa Bacchiochi. Monsieur Leblanc was the secretary to the grand duchess and governor of the principality of Piombino. Degas, who had a sizable collection of works by Ingres, owned both portraits, which the Museum bought from his estate sale in 1918.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jldv/ho_19.77.1.htm