This first-time pairing of Picasso’s Woman With a Book and its inspiration, Ingres’s celebrated Madame Moitessier, underlines the uniqueness of each artist
adame Moitessier, finger to famous temple, sits back on her rose satin chaise, dress spreading like an overblown garden around her. Chinese porcelain, silk fans, rubies, pearls and ormulu frames: her boudoir is a hothouse of ostentatious wealth.painted Inès Moitessier in Paris, where she lived with her rich banker husband, a widower 20 years older.
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