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Portrait of Madame Reiset is an 1823 portrait painting by the French artist Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson. It depicts Colette-Désirée-Thérèse Godefroy (1782-1850) the wife of Jacques de Reiset a French government official of the Restoration era. She was the mother of Frédéric Reiset, the art collector and curator at the Louvre.
It reflects the Neoclassical influence of the artist's mentor Jacques-Louis David as well as his interest in Florentine Renaissance art. The sitter had originally wanted to be painted in full-length but Girodet persuaded her this half-length would be better. She chose to wear a velour dress. It was one of the final portraits produced by the artist before his death the following year. It was exhibited at the Salon of 1824 in Paris. Today it is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
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