Portraits by Ingres

Résumé du livre

The sensuous odalisques and dramatic historical scenes of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) are among the masterpieces of 19th-century French painting. But Ingres' greatest achievement remains the brilliant depictions of his contemporaries that he created over seven decades. Termed by a critic in 1855 "the most faithful image of our epoch, " such works -- with their psychological acuity and magnificently rendered costumes -- are the subject of this first comprehensive study in English of Ingres' portraits.