Charles LANDELLE

Created by Charles Landelle, one of the most famous and sought-after academic artists of the Second Empire, this handsome portrait of a woman seated in an armchair adopts all the codes of the genre and shows the strong influence of Ingres, the great master of portraiture in his time, who was nevertheless not his teacher. The detail of the hands in particular makes direct reference to the style of the painter of the Odalisque and the Turkish Bath. The work, which is signed and dated 1849 in the lower right, also recalls another famous painting: The portrait of the Widow Clicquot painted by Léon Cogniet two years later. That year the painter exhibited two portraits of women at the salon and we