Portraits by Ingres: Image of An Epoch

Tinterow, Gary and Philip Conisbee (Editors)

ISBN 10: 0870998919 / ISBN 13: 9780870998911

Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1999

About this Item

Color illustrated wraps, white lettering. xii; 596 pp. 504 illustrations, including 203 in full color. Catalogue of an exhibition held at The National Gallery, London, The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, between January 27, 1999-January 2, 2000. An absolutely beautiful volume on the portraits of Ingres, complemented and supported by crisp, vivid color reproduictions and extensive annotation and scholarship. VG (copy may have small ink inscription on fly leaf).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Portraits by Ingres: Image of An Epoch
• Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870998919
• ISBN 13: 9780870998911
• Binding: Paperback
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Synopsis

Published to accompany an international exhibition, this is a study of the portraits by the French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. They were created over the first seven decades of the 19th century and were described by a critic in 1855 as "the most faithful image of our epoch". The book brings together a wide range of original-source materials, including letters, critical reviews, biographical documents and photographs. The major portraits are discussed and reproduced, and more than 100 portrait drawings and many preparatory studies are also included.

From Library Journal

This catalog of the portraits of the 19th-century painter Ingres is a companion volume to the traveling exhibition sponsored by the National Gallery in London, the National Gallery in Washington, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In the first major study on this subject, five scholars chart the chronology of Ingres the portraitist and seek to place this aspect of his oeuvre within the context of his career and, more broadly, within 19th-century European society and the history of portraiture. Chief influences in the portraits of Ingres include the classical tradition of his teacher, David and that of Renaissance artist, Raphael. Beautiful color and black-and-white reproductions illustrate both Ingres's oil paintings and graphite drawings. Recommended for academic art collections and for all specialized art libraries.ASandra Rothenberg, Framingham State Coll. Lib., MA
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