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Original – Ingres, Countess d'Haussonville, 1845, displayed in the Frick Collection in New York City since the 1930s. Many critics have noted that her right arm seems to be growing out of her left shoulder.
Reason
A terrific scan of a celebrated painting. Despite its already high EV, I held off nominating it here until writing Louise de Broglie, Countess d'Haussonville, a biography long overdue.
Articles in which this image appears
Louise de Broglie, Countess d'Haussonville, Ingres, Frick Collection, Western Painting, Dress, 1840s in Western fashion, Joseph d'Haussonville
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Done, and thank you for your support. FP issues aside, the painting in person is luminous and extraordinary, as you surely know. Newsweek pointedly compared the Countess to Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring in an article this past February, expressing relief that the two "poster girls" of their respective museums would not have to fight it out in the same Mauritshuis exhibition room. Vesuvius Dogg (talk) 03:06, 9 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Comtesse d'Haussonville - Google Art Project.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 03:45, 19 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]