@Betty,
The paintings are lovely and I never knew about this painter so I had to read him up. (I just need an excuse to read and you gave me a reason). The biography in the site rogallery.com mentions that he was good at playing the violin. I have reproduced the text below:
Ingres's well-known passion for playing the violin gave to the French language a colloquialism, "violon d'Ingres", meaning a second skill beyond the one by which a person is mainly known. The American avant-garde artist Man Ray used this expression as the title of a famous photograph portraying Alice Prin (aka Kiki de Montparnasse) in the pose of the Valpinon Bather.
His actual skill on the violin is a matter of dispute. He played Beethoven string quartets with Niccolo Paganini. In an 1839 letter, Franz Liszt described his playing as "charming", and planned to play through all the Mozart and Beethoven violin sonatas with Ingres. Liszt also dedicated his transcriptions of the 5th and 6th symphonies of Beethoven to Ingres on their original publication in 1840. Charles Gounod was non-committal, merely noting that "he was not a professional, even less a virtuoso". But Sir Charles Hall was scathing, writing "He thought less of his paintings than his violin playing, which, to say the least of it, was vile".
And one more thing, in your first post you mentioned that the reflection disturbs you, you are right, it actually does not seem to be the true reflection of the Louise. But if you look at the paintings that Angel posted, of Baroness Rothchild, her pose would enable that reflection. That is what I felt.
But the simpler explanation would be that Ingress was known for "body enlongation" and the reflection was a "reflection " of this facet of his
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