Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc (Françoise Poncelle, 1788–1839)
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1823
Face & Portrait
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Intermediate
What you practise here
Ingres: graphite portrait, pure line and hinted volumes
Start from the skull as a ball, place the brow line and the centre line, then check the thirds of the face before any detail. Compare angles, not features.
Public-domain artwork from a museum collection, reproduced for study. 100% real art — 0% AI.