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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

ABC Wednesday - I is for Ingres

 I is for Ingres

 Jean Augueste Dominique Ingres 
29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867

 Self-portrait at age 24
 1804

Ingres was a French Neo-Classicism painter. He considered himself a painter of history but ultimately he is best known for his portrait paintings and drawings.


 
 Napoleon on his Throne
 1806
"Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters." ~ Ingres

The Bather of Valpinçon
1808Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France         


                                          
Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Desdéban. 
1810
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Besançon, France


"The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer."
Le Grande Odalisque
  1814
Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France


Antiochus and Stratonice
 1840
Oil on canvas. Musée Condé, Chantilly, France
"As long as you do not hold a balance between your seeing of things and your execution, you will do nothing that is really good."
Portrait of Countess D'Haussonville
1845Frick Collection, New York City




Sources

Olga's Gallery

Art in the Picture


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Friday, December 18, 2009

The Friday Evening Nudes (On Saturday)

Hi, All, 
This post was scheduled to appear last night but something went awry with the time stamp. Sorry 'bout that. Enjoy!


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Jean-Honoré Fragonard

1782-1806


Frédéric Bazille

1841-1870


Annie Swynnerton
1844- 1933
Cupid and Psyche 



Evelyn Pickering de Morgan

1855-1919




Henri Lebasque
1865-1937


Suzanne Valadon 
1865-1938
Jacqueline Marval
 1866-1932


 Karl Hofer
1878-1955



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