Portraits by Ingres
by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Philip Conisbee, Gary Tinterow
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"Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch, published in conjunction with an exhibition at The National Gallery, London, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is the first comprehensive study of these nineteenth-century masterpieces." "This volume unites texts by American and European scholars with the most complete visual presentation ever of Ingres's portraits. The biographical essays and the catalogue entries provide fresh insights based show more on examination and interpretation of original correspondence, contemporary reviews, and newly discovered documents; supplementing these are an introduction that discusses Ingres's sources of inspiration, essays on the critical reception of the portraits and on the artist's use of assistants, and a detailed illustrated chronology."--Jacket. show lessTags
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A glorious work to dip in and out of, with myriads of pictures and drawings and wondrous biographies of the people Ingres painted. It's amusing to read the biographies but the paintings tell the same story. Ingres tells you most of what you need to know! in his wonderful portraits.
I went to the London exhibition in 1999 and couldn't afford this catalogue at the time but found my copy in a charity shop yesterday. Such serendipity.
If you do not know the story of how Ingres and his wife met I beg you to research this. :-) And they say internet dating is fraught. Ingres and his first wife became engaged sight unseen!
I do recall a simply wonderful sketch of Madeleine, his wife, at the London exhibition which was the most astonishingly show more lively and loving portrait I have ever seen. Sadly I cannot find a reproduction of this in the book but it is a mighty tome and I shall keep looking. show less
I went to the London exhibition in 1999 and couldn't afford this catalogue at the time but found my copy in a charity shop yesterday. Such serendipity.
If you do not know the story of how Ingres and his wife met I beg you to research this. :-) And they say internet dating is fraught. Ingres and his first wife became engaged sight unseen!
I do recall a simply wonderful sketch of Madeleine, his wife, at the London exhibition which was the most astonishingly show more lively and loving portrait I have ever seen. Sadly I cannot find a reproduction of this in the book but it is a mighty tome and I shall keep looking. show less
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