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[portrait-paintings]

Madame Moitessier

Artist: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780-1867)

Date: 1856

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The National Gallery, London, United Kingdom

[portrait-paintings]

Hylda, Daughter of Asher and Mrs Wertheimer

Artist: John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)

Date: 1901

Medium: Oil paint on canvas

Collection: Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom

Description

Hylda was the third daughter of the wealthy art dealer Asher Wertheimer, who had commissioned Sargent to paint twelve portraits of his family. Sargent''s reputation ensured that such portraits were a token of wealth and social standing. The portrait of Hylda is in the grand manner of the old masters, and great care is given to the depiction of the different luxurious textures of her clothing. Sargent tried to dissuade Hylda from wearing her pince-nez, which undermine this illusion, but they were retained at her insistence.