Portrait of Madame Oudiné
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| Artist | Hippolyte Flandrin |
| Year | 1840 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 84 cm × 64 cm (33 in × 25 in) |
| Location | Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon |
Portrait of Madame Oudiné is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Hippolyte Flandrin, executed in 1840, now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.
It depicts the young wife of Eugène Oudiné, one of Flandrin's fellow painters at the Villa Medici. It was the first portrait Flandrin painted after his return from Rome and he produced it after a relatively short time lapse. It was successfully exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1840. According to Patrice Béghain, the painting seems intended to symbolize bourgeois virtue as every element emphasizes "nothing but order, stiffness and symmetry".[1]