(Portrait de Mme. Récamier)
The sitter wears a white Empire dress, the train of which
hangs down to the ground from the Empire sofa on which she is
half reclining, with her left elbow resting on a pair of round
horse-hair bolsters. Her face is turned towards her right shoulder.
A wide black riband is tied round her fair curled hair. A low
footstool in front of the sofa on the right, and a standing
candelabrum of classic design on the left.
The candelabrum is said to have been painted by Ingres.
Painted in oil on canvas (unfinished).